Actions not remaining in Action Panel

When I create a new action, apply it and close it, at a latter date I cannot find that action in the Action Panel. Obviously I'm doing something wrong, but I'm stumped as to what i'm missing.

You could save the Action Set manually to be able to reload it. (Which is advisable in any case as corruption of preferences files may destroy them.)
But usually it should be saved on quitting, do you possibly have permission issues?

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I'm using Mac and Flash CC
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Steps i tried..
1) new Symbol
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3) input stop() in the actions
4) symbol definitions not showing in the the actions navigator..
i can add scripts for stage and can be selected from the actions panel..
see screenshot..
anyone has idea what matter with this issue? many thanks.!!!

I can only speak for myself, but your explanation of what you did and whatever problem you are having is not clear to me. The image doesn't appear to show anything as an issue. What are you trying to do and what do you expect to see?

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I'm using CS6 and when I open Window->Actions, I see the Actions Tab but not the "Actions Panel." I've looked all over the place and can't get it to open. The "Actions Panel" when working with older scripts in AcxtionScript 2 where there are a bunch of programs added to many different frames. Please tell me how I can open the "Actions Panel." Thanks, Allan
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Thank you for answering my question. When I follow your directions, I still don't see the Actions Menu. According to
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/actions-actions-panel.html it should appear in the middle in the Essentials Workspace layout. All I get are the following tabs [color-swatches] and [Align-Info-Transform] and [Code Snippets-Components-Motions Presets] and [Project] in the middle section. With [Properties-Library-Actions] on the left. [Timeline-Motion Editor] on the bottom. And the [.fla and .as] open in the top left.
I can't find the Actions Menu. The only reason that I know that the Actions Menu exists is that I had to work on another guys PC for a morning, and there is was! I is a bug help with older ActionScript 1/2 projects.
I appreciate your help, Allan

Actions Panel not displaying

I am posting this here simply because I couldn't find
reference to this elsewhere and perhaps it will help someone
someday.
In Flash CS3 I had a problem with the Actions panel not
displaying. I tried F9, choosing Actions from the Window Menu,
right clicking on a frame and selecting Actions from the context
menu, restarting Flash, rebooting the computer, etc. It just
wouldn't display.
I finally took a good look on my flash desktop. At the very
top, right below the menu bar, was this little horizontal bar,
about 2 to 4 pixels in height. It was a dark grey, virtually
blending in with the window background. It had no graphics or text
on it, just a horizontal bar. It was probably the bottom few pixels
of the window frame. This was my actions panel all curled up, no
header bar, no nothing. I clicked on it, an voila, my actions panel
appeared.
My main questions are these: How did this happen and why was
it just a a blank vertical bar? Why not the regular title bar you
see when you minimize a panel?

I received this information from Adobe for my mac when the
top actions panel ribbon was showing but the window would not open:
As an initial troubleshooting step, please try to reset the
Flash CS3 configuration to
further isolate the issue:
To reset or re-create the Flash configuration:
- Close all applications
- Go to your Hard Drive
- Then Users
- Choose your user login (with house icon)
- Go to Library
- Then Application Support
- Choose Adobe
- Open Flash CS3 or Flash 9 folder
- Open "EN" folder
- Rename Configuration folder to Configuration_OLD
- Launch Flash again and try accessing the Actions Panel.
It worked for me.

TK Actions panels not installed un PS CC 2014

I use the TK Actions Panel in PS CC by loading them through the menu Extension.
Now in PS CC 2014, the Extension menu is still Grey and i can not installed the TK Actions Panel.
Does anyone know how to proceed?
Thanks in advance
Olivier Lebrethon

I am not sure if TK Actions Panel is Flash based extension. Flash based extensions are not supported by PS CC 2014 anymore. Please refer to http://blogs.adobe.com/photoshopdotcom/2014/04/photoshop-spring-cleaning.html, http://blogs.adobe.com/jkost/2014/06/installing-the-2014-release-of-creative-cloud.html
And http://blogs.adobe.com/crawlspace/2014/06/2014-release-of-photoshop-cc-faq.html#plugins (scroll down to "Why don’t my 3rd Panels show up in the 2014 release of Photoshop CC? What happened to Oil Paint, Mini-Bridge & Kuler?”)
You have to continue to use it in PS CC until its HTML based counterparts become available.

TK Actions Panel Not Showing

I purchased the TK Actions/Video set from GoodLight.us. It comes with a set of Actions : "TKActions" which have been installed as directed into the CS5 Actions folder. They appear when Actions is opened and appear to function correctly. However, the Panel from the same set will not show in "Extentions"on the CS 5 page and it is supposed to as listed in the directions. It was copied/pasted in Plug-ins/Panel in Cs 5's program files.
I have updated the flash player since there was mention of Flash in some applications when I searched for help.
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Tony Kuyper Photography—TKActions panel
http://goodlight.us/writing/actionspanelv3/panelv3.html
I have been able to speak with tony by phone and by email. I am certain that he will fix your problem.
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     This update was mandated by Adobe's forthcoming changes to Photoshop CC. The next revision to PS CC (Photoshop 15), due out in a few weeks, will remove support for Flash-based panels. The current TK-ACTIONS and TK_ACTIONS panel use Flash to do their thing and will no longer work in the soon-to-be-released PS CC update. HTML5 is the new standard for extension panels and is already incorporated into the current version of PS CC. (Flash will continue to be the standard for Photoshop CS5 and CS6.) Since I use PS CC and rely on the panel in my own developing workflow, I re-coded the panel using the new HTML5 standard. This also gave me the opportunity to add some new features to the panel.
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     The new panel is called "TKActions" and the link at the top of this email will tell you about it. Once there you can download the PDF instructions that tell how the panel works and also watch some videos about it at the bottom of the page. I'm particularly excited about the vids, which were produced by Sean Bagshaw. I know the panel seems a bit overwhelming at first, so Sean's visual walk-through and practical demonstrations will go a long way towards making people proficient at using it. Sean has an amazing ability to help students understand even complicated processes, and even though the panel isn't all that complex, I think it is going to be an even more useful tool for many photographers once they watch him use it in the videos.
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1) A new two-tab layout for improved efficiency
2) Color-coded sections
3) "View" buttons to provide a visual overlay of which pixels are actually selected
4) Zone masks that focus adjustments to very narrow tonal ranges
5) Web-sharpening actions for vertical and horizontal dimensions and for high-definition dimensions
6) Several new buttons to correspond to some techniques discussed in recent blog posts.
7) One-click live selections (instead of Ctrl/Cmd-clicking a mask)
8) New buttons for creating adjustment layers and changing blending modes
9) Simplified subtracted mask generation
10) "Progressive actions" for experimenting with many different options
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vince

Actions panel not opening with Option+F9 in Mac

Hi,
Does anyone have this problem? This has always happened. I use CS4
When I press Option+F9 it doesn't do anything, it only forwards a song if I have iTunes on.
The only solution I use is going to Window and choosing 'Actions' but it's much tedious than using the keyboard.
If anyone can give me a solution I'll be much obliged.
Thanks

I received this information from Adobe for my mac when the
top actions panel ribbon was showing but the window would not open:
As an initial troubleshooting step, please try to reset the
Flash CS3 configuration to
further isolate the issue:
To reset or re-create the Flash configuration:
- Close all applications
- Go to your Hard Drive
- Then Users
- Choose your user login (with house icon)
- Go to Library
- Then Application Support
- Choose Adobe
- Open Flash CS3 or Flash 9 folder
- Open "EN" folder
- Rename Configuration folder to Configuration_OLD
- Launch Flash again and try accessing the Actions Panel.
It worked for me.

Actionscript code can be seen in a search, but not seen in Actions Panel nor symbol

I purchased a template which has flash menu buttons. The current button url's go to index.html, index-2.html, index-3.html, and so on. I want to change these. In Flash, I searched for index-3.html and it finds it at the location: Symbol 'Button2 copy 3' -> Layer 'Layer 4' -> Frame '1' and the actionscript command is: getURL("index-3.html");
Everything is fine so far. However, when I double-click the symbol and go to the location (or double-click the search result), the actionscript command cannot be found at all. I tried pressing F9 to open the Actions Panel, and I see the button symbol but I don't see any actionscript commands associated with it. It seems to be very unusual - the search picks up the actionscript command but it can't be seen in the symbol's location where it says it is nor can it be seen in the Actions Panel. The script does work but it just cannot be seen! Does anyone know how to see the actionscript code in the Actions Panel or in the button symbol?

show a screenshot of movie explorer after searching for getURL("index-3.html")

Why is the actions panel not appearing?

I am unable to view the Actions Panel window in a document I've already done a lot of work in. It worked previously - I created an Actions Layer and was able to add action script, however, when I try to open it back up to edit the action script I wrote, neither the F9 shortcut nor the Windows>Actions pulls up the Actions Panel. In fact, when I try either method, nothing happens.

try changing the workspace to default (or anything different from your current).

Actions Panel does not open CS6 Flash Pro

When I open Window->Actions, the Action Panel doesn't open. I really need it to develop this app. According to
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/actions-actions-panel.html the action panel is supposed to open at the same time that the Actions code panel opens.
Please help, Allan
[email protected]
[email protected]

Thank you for answering my question. When I follow your directions, I still don't see the Actions Menu. According to
http://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/actions-actions-panel.html it should appear in the middle in the Essentials Workspace layout. All I get are the following tabs [color-swatches] and [Align-Info-Transform] and [Code Snippets-Components-Motions Presets] and [Project] in the middle section. With [Properties-Library-Actions] on the left. [Timeline-Motion Editor] on the bottom. And the [.fla and .as] open in the top left.
I can't find the Actions Menu. The only reason that I know that the Actions Menu exists is that I had to work on another guys PC for a morning, and there is was! I is a bug help with older ActionScript 1/2 projects.
I appreciate your help, Allan

What are the little red squares on the lower left hand corner of a movieclip in the actions panel?

What do the little red squares on the lower left hand corner of the movieclips in the actions panel mean? [Fig. 1]
I'm working off this template in Flash CS3, that's using ActionScript 2.0 actually.
I don't know whether or not that means anything in regards to the above inquire?
Again, any help is appreciated.
Fig.1

OK, I think I might have figured this out.
First. You guys keep insisting it's the Movie Explorer. It is not. It is the Actions Panel. You can see for yourself. Option+F9 opens the Actions Panel. Option+F3 opens the 'Explorer Window'. They are similar in appearance but they're not the same thing. They're just not.
Second. I believe that the red dots on the movieclips, and also buttons, indicates when there is actionscript directly on the movieclip and/or button, as oppose to actionscript written on a frame within a movie clip and/or button.
You really have to pay special attention to the top of the Actions Panel right next to where it says 'Actions' there's a dash '–' and then it says either 'Frame', 'Movie Clip', or 'Button'. This indicates exactly where you're about to write script to, or where you're reading the script from, so it's important to pay attention to this.
That left side pane, in the Actions Panel, is divided by 'Scene' and by 'Symbol Definition(s)' and it's confusing because it's possible to have a symbol appear more than once depening on where the actionscript is located (i.e. on a frame or on the movie clip or button itself).
For example if you have script on a FRAME within movie clip A, it'll appear in the SYMBOL DEFINITION(S) pane, without a red box, but if you were to write script on movie clip A itself, it would still not have the red box on it in the SYMBOL DEFINITION(S) pane, BUT it would appear again as movie clip A in the SCENE pane, and this time it would appear with the red box next to it, casue it now has actionscript directly on the movie clip itself. Wow, how confusing is that ha.
Keep in mind that if you made a movie clip B, within movie clip A, and if you placed actionscripts directly on movie clip B, NOT on a frame, then movie clip B would get a red box and appear UNDER movie clip A, within the SYMBOL DEFINITION(S) pane, NOT the SCENE pane. Ha.
If you wrote script on a FRAME within movie clip B it would appear in the SYMBOL DEFINITION(S) again, yes a second time, twice, but WITHOUT a red box. Confused yet? ha.
I don't know why Flash decided to do it this way. But it starts to make sense when you're actually viewing it, when it's in front of you. I think this is just for actionscript 2.0 (and for actionscript 1.0 presumably), but I don't think this is the case for ActionScript 3.0, because in as3 it's all instance name based, and targeting based, so there's no such thing as writing script directly onto a symbol of any kind, button, movie clip or otherwise.
But yeah, that's it in a nutshell.
Thanks for trying to help anyway.

Edge Animate CC 2014.1 issues with the new Actions Panel

Hi Guys - I am totally confused with the latest undated EA CC 2014.1 actions panel.
With the old one - its was simple :
but the new one - I get nowhere, freezes the program and I cannot edit any actions... Very frustrating - am I doing something wrong or is it a program flaw?
Is there tutorials I can access on the new actions panel?

Strange. I do not think we have seen this. When you choose an action for example, you need to drill down to the element that needs the action and then double-click to apply it. Is it what you are doing?

Loading in a second Actions panel with the same functionality as the first, but independent from it

The actions panel is perfect at what it does; however, if you have a few action sets and, in order to eliminate scrolling, you need to expand them into a double row of buttons, it quickly becomes difficult to maintain. As soon as you delete an action or add an action to it, it disorders the others and you have to reorganize again, which becomes a vicious cycle. I like to keep things organised and neat with all that I do and pretty much the only way to have this feature is to expand it on the back end of the software or, if possible, create a script that loads a second Actions panel with the same functionality as the first but completely independent from it. I assume that the SDK will not allow us to expand on the software in this particular way, as Photoshop is not open source; however, maybe this suggestion will be taken into account for future updates or versions since I have yet to find a suitable way to do this.
Thank you in advance.
Kind regards

That would depend on the links on the page. Some pages have links that refer to different areas on the same page. If you want to force a link to open in a new tab, you can middle-click it.

Call actionscript file function from actions panel of a movie clip

i have a movie clip with an actions layer
can i call a function from an actionscript file from the actions panel?

does that actionscript file specify a class or not?
if not, then use:
include "yourpath/yourfilename.as"
on any timeline.
any function in that as file will be added to the timeline that has the include statement and you reference that function with normal dot syntax from your calling timeline.

CS4 action panel really really slow!

Sorry if this issue was already posted, the search function
on this forum was not working at the time of writing this.
I just upgraded from Flash 8 to CS4, and the first thing I
noticed was how slow the action panel was compared to Flash 8. When
typing code into the action panel, there is a very annoying 1-2
second delay before it shows up. There is a noticeable delay in
selecting text as well. I thought I could get used to, but its been
a few weeks, and still driving me crazy.
I noticed there are documented performance issues with CS4
and the Ratheon 3200, but I have a Ratheon HD 3870.
Is there a way to speed up the action panel?
Thank you

what is Ratheon 3200?
it have nothing to do with your gpu
im thinking you are using athlon 3200, its not that new, but
CS4 takes a lot more system resource and computing power then flash
8, if you are using more then one core, assign one specific core
for flash, and nothing else uses that core.

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