Flash Shortcuts

These are the shortcuts as discussed in my Tulsa Techfest 2008 Flash presentation.
(Why have a list of shortcuts in a presentation? These seem to have either slipped the general tutorials, and I find useful in my day to day life, or are worth repeating.)

Hide all Panels - f4
CTRL/command - +/- like you can turn on in photoshop
CTRL/command - 1 - 100%, 2-stage fit on screen ,3 everything on screen, 4-400%, 8-800% - in ps it turns off alpha channels - FAIR WARNING!

Basics -

f8 - convert selected item into symbol
f7 - blank keyframe
f6 - key frame
shift f6 - deletes selected key frame
f5 - frames
shift f5 - delete selected frames

< > - control timeline playhead - back and forth in a frame
ENTER - will play in the editing environment - enter again to stop, but may have some lag (just grab playhead?)

ARROW KEYS - for pixel based changes to items selected
SHIFT ARROW KEYS - to move by 10 pixels a pop

f9 - actionscript

And what I suggest to be your NEW NERVIOUS TWITCH - CTRL S, CTRL ENTER. If you work this in to your testing process, you have a gurantee against losing work due to processing failures of the final movie, as well as a good chance of getting files back with most of your work still there.

CTRL/command enter - test movie - creates a swf

And of course, if you use a tool regularly and do not know the short cut, simply mouse over the tools to find out the key.


That's it! I hope this was useful - carry on with your Flash!


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