How do I View Guides for Movie Clips in Relation to Entire Scene?
My boss purchased a flash animation from a company a few months ago that she now needs me to fix. The goal is to resize the animation to different dimensions for a new banner. I took the original file, brought up the document settings, and changed the size to the new one we need, and hit the "scale content" checkbox. The file I have after doing this is shown below; I have highlighted the shape I will be talking about in pink. Nothing is the correct size now so I am trying to resize them to fit the stage area. I am having trouble with the green shape that is highlighted Pink.
The person who originally made this file made that highlighted shape into a movie clip and then dropped it in to the main timeline. I was wondering if there was a way that I could see where that shape is in relation to the area of the entire stage and the other objects in the main timeline? Meaning if I am inside of the greenblock movie clip all I see is what is below:
With this view I cannot tell where that shape is in relation to everything else. I am hoping someone can tell me how to view the guides from my main file inside of this movie clip( I already have guides turned on), or any other way of seeing what size and where my shape is in relation to rest of the objects on the stage of my main file. I would take any option that would let me tweak the green shape inside of the movie clip and see in real time how it looks in relation to the rest of the items on the stage as I make changes.
Any suggestions on how to get perspective on where my movie clip is in relation to the stage and other objects on it would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
Tissal
Somehow double clicking on your system seems to be connected to the command
fl.getDocumentDOM().enterEditMode('');//the view where you don`t see the rest of your stage
whereas normally it defaults to
fl.getDocumentDOM().enterEditMode('inPlace'); //the view where you can see everything els on stge alphablended
you can either create a shortcut to
edit>edit in place or alter the standard behaviour of your double click
or right click(Windows) or ctrl-click(MAc) the mc and choose Edit in Place
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Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:47:57 -0600
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Subject: removeChild for movie clip that was added in another function?
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