Working with scenes

To organize a document thematically, you can use scenes. For example, you might use separate scenes for an introduction, a loading message, and credits.

Note: You cannot use scenes in a screen-based document. For information on screens, see Working with Screens (Flash Professional Only).

When you publish a Flash document that contains more than one scene, the scenes in the document play back in the order they are listed in the Scene panel in the Flash document. Frames in the document are numbered consecutively through scenes. For example, if a document contains two scenes with ten frames each, the frames in Scene 2 are numbered 11-20.

You can add, delete, duplicate, rename, and change the order of scenes.

To stop or pause a document after each scene, or to let users navigate the document in a nonlinear fashion, you use actions. See ActionScript Basics.

To display the Scene panel:

Select Window > Design Panels > Scene.

To view a particular scene:

Select View > Go To and then select the name of the scene from the submenu.

To add a scene, do one of the following:

Click the Add Scene button in the Scene panel.
Select Insert > Scene.

To delete a scene:

Click the Delete Scene button in the Scene panel.

To change the name of a scene:

Double-click the scene name in the Scene panel and enter the new name.

To duplicate a scene:

Click the Duplicate Scene button in the Scene panel.

To change the order of a scene in the document:

Drag the scene name to a different location in the Scene panel.