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Let me now focus on the Properties Inspector. The Properties Inspector is a handy one stop free floating or docked window that will let you see and modify the Properties of any selected object on the stage. It also changes if you select some of the tools here on the toolbar. You can open and close the Properties Inspector from the main menu by choosing Window, Properties, Properties and also dock the Properties Inspector anywhere on the stage, and so I've got this docked at the top. I can undock by grabbing the Properties Inspector in the upper left hand corner and moving it, now it becomes a free flowing window. The content of the Inspector will change again depending on what is currently selected on the stage or which tool you've selected. The Default Properties Inspector can be seen by clicking on an empty area of the stage here. You can set the size of your stage, add a Title Description, Background Color, Frame Rate Ruler Units. Notice, you also have many of those options here without having to click on the size button, you've got your Background Color Frame Rate which is very important, the speed at which the play back head moves. In other words, this setting here means that it will travel 12 frames every second. Also down here you have some important displays. The player here says 9, this means that I currently set the Publish here to Publish this file to the Flash Player 9, so that it requires, Flash Player 9 or later to playback. You can set that in the Publish Settings Dialogue which I will cover later in the course. ActionScript is 3.0, the Options are 2.0 or 3.0. You establish this when you first open up a new document. Let us again, as I click on various objects on the stage, my Properties Inspector will change. Some of the tools have Generic Properties Inspector. Notice that the gradient Lasso Hand Tool, Zoom Tool, EyeDropper Tool, Eraser Tool all have the Generic Property Inspector, as I select them. But the other tools, such as the Pen Tool have their unique properties which you can set here in the Properties Inspector. Probably the most important of the detailed to in terms of the Property Inspector is the Text Tool that is if the whole thing is filled with Properties you can adjust and set for your Text Elements including the type of Text, Static, Dynamic or Input. The typeface, the size of the typeface, the color, Formatting Options, kearning Options and in some cases very important anti-alias Options for the text. I will be reviewing each of the settings later in the course when I focus in on using the Text Tool in Flash. To complete my survey, let me show you the Properties Inspector for some of the other tools. There's the properties you can set for the Pencil Tool, Brush Tool, Line Tool including the Stroke Color, the Stroke Thickness the Line Style and you have the Custom Button here for customizing the Stroke Style of that tool. One last thing regarding the Properties Inspector, in that you can use it to set the Properties of various Timeline Attributes. Notice that I have timeline here with this green shape tween and by clicking on one of those key frames there which is the filled circle. I get some options here in the properties inspector such as the Tween setting. I can setup my motion Tweens and Shape Tweens or disable them. I have an Ease Value here as well as a Blend Value, I have Sound Options, Effect Options, Syncing Options for audio. If I change the Tween from a shape to a Motion Notice I have additional Properties. I have an Edit Button now that lets me actually Edit and Customize my Ease in and Ease Out which is essentially the speed of the starting and ending of the animation which I will be covering each of these topics in more detail as I get to each part of the course relating to motion and sound or effects. But here I wanted to introduce you to the fact that the Properties Inspector also changes when you're working with various timeline elements here. Flash also has a full compliment of additional work spaces and panels and windows that the Flash documentation refers to collectively as panels. These can be accessed from the Main Menu under Window listed under the Properties. We have Library Panel, Common Libraries, Actions, Behaviors, Debug Panels, Movie Explorer, Output Project. Quite a few of them in fact, so let me review some of the more common and important of these panels in the next several movies.