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Use the Movie Explorer to view the document structure
The Movie Explorer helps you arrange,locate,and edit media.With its hierarchical tree structure,
the Movie Explorer provides information about the organization and flow of a document.
1 Select Window >Other Panels >Movie Explorer.
If necessary,enlarge the Movie Explorer to view the tree structure within the pane.
The Movie Explorer filtering buttons display or hide information.
2 Click the pop-up menu in the title bar of the Movie Explorer,and select Show Movie Elements
and Show Symbol Definitions,if they ’re not already selected.
3 Configure the filtering buttons,along the top of the Movie Explorer,so the only ones selected
are Show Buttons,Movie Clips,and Graphics;Show ActionScripts;and Show Video,Sounds,
and Bitmaps.
If you move your mouse pointer over a button,a tooltip displays the name of the button.
Examine the list to view some of the assets included in the document,and to see their
relationship to other assets.
4 In the Movie Explorer pane,expand Actions for Play to view ActionScript that Flash created
when you added the Play video control behavior.
5 To close the Movie Explorer,click its close box.
Test the document
As you author a document,you should save and test it frequently to ensure the Flash content
plays as expected.When you test the SWF file,click the video control buttons to see if the video
stops,plays,and rewinds as expected.
1 Save the document (File >Save)and select Control >Test Movie.
The Flash content plays in a SWF file window.While FLA is the extension for documents in
the authoring environment,SWF is the extension for tested,exported,and published
Flash content.
2 When you finish viewing the SWF content,close the SWF file window to return to the
authoring environment.
Find help
The lessons provide an introduction to Flash,and suggest ways that you can use features to
create exactly the kind of document required.For comprehensive information about a
feature,procedure,or process described in the lessons,refer to the Help tab of the Help panel
(Help >Help).