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The Flash Interface / Workspace Presets

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Adobe has also provided Flash Workspace presets. These let you rearrange the various Workspace elements in your project based on what you are doing. For example, under here, Window, Workspace, you have the Animator Workspace, which brings the components such as the Timeline up above, the Color Palette, the Aligned Palette, the properties in the Library over in the lower right hand corner. Or you could go with the Classic Workspace, this is from previous versions of Flash and it will be the primary Workspace that I will be using throughout this tutorial. You have your Tools Panel to the left, Timeline up above, Properties Panel to the right. And your stage here in the center. To start with, when you first open up Flash CS3, you are going to get the Essentials Workspace that shows you the Essential Workspace components. The Library Properties Inspector over to the right. Notice the Tools Panel is way over here to the right, even further to the right than the Properties and Library. Timeline is underneath and then your stage up here at top. You also have additional Workspaces. The Debug Workspace showing the Debug console over to the upper left. The Variables, lower left and then the Output Panel underneath and then the stage in the center. And lastly you have the Designer and Developer Workspaces. The Designer Workspace has your Properties Inspector to the left. Tools, notice in a different configuration above and to the left. Timeline up above. Stage down below and then you have a variety of designer Palettes and windows. Align, Swatches, Color, Transform, Info and so on. And then lastly you will have the Developer Workspace which scrambles around. Again, the various components. Property Inspector up to the right. Components Inspector as well as the Project Panel over here. And then you have your Property Inspector down the lower right. These Panels can be closed by clicking in the upper right hand corner and then either closing the Panel or closing the group. Just go ahead and close the group here. And also rearrange this Workspace so it looks like this. And if you make a mess of your Workspace, which you may do in the beginning while you are getting used to the Workspace tools and Control functions, you can always reset the Workspace. I can reset the Developer Workspace so that it goes back to the default position. Let's go back here and let's use the Classic Workspace. That looks like this and if you find that you Ð this is the Workspace again that I will primarily using in this tutorial, but if you find that if you mess things up, for example, you close things by mistake or you move things around Ð you can also, by the way, undock these windows. Let's say you make a real mess of this, you can always go back and reset the Classic Workspace, back to the default, which looks like this. Likewise, if you find a particular Workspace that you find particularly useful, whatever that may be, let's say that you've got the Tool Panel down here in a more square configuration and over on the right hand side you could always save these Workspaces as well by clicking on the New Workspace option there, give it a name. Let's call this Test Workspace. And it looks like so. There it is. Let's reset the Workspace, change it to the Animator Workspace. And then notice I can go back to my Saved Workspace by choosing the Test Workspace option which is now at the top of the list. And that takes me back to the last positions that these were in before I saved that Workspace. So let me know move on to the next movie and provide an overview of the main components here in the various Workspaces that I have demonstrated in the latter half of this movie.

Tutorial Information

Course: Adobe Flash CS4
Author: James Gonzalez
SKU: 33981
ISBN: 1-935320-37-8
Release Date: 2009-04-19
Duration: 11 hrs / 126 lessons
Work Files: Yes
Captions: Available on CD and Online University
Compatibility: Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux
QuickTime 7, Flash 8

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