Timeline selection auto deselect :[ in Flash CS4 Help! Can't work.

Hi!
I am a pro user but I have never seen something like this. When I'm trying to select several frames on 4 layers, the selection dissapear! I can't finish my work, I didn't change any preferences, nothing :[ I changed mouse - the same. There is no info in the Internet about this error Did u meet that bug before? Please help me. Cheers.

If you are trying click and drag to select multiple frames in multiple layers and that won't work, try clicking on the first frame that you want and then hold the shift key and click on the last frame. Do either of those work? Both should. If not, you may need yet another mouse.

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Regards,
Michael J. Sheehan allelois
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:48:09 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Need help with Flash CS4 buttons/can't get buttons to control anything
Hi there
I'm not sure how you wound up where you did. But you wound up in the Adobe Captivate forums. Please stand by as I move your thread to the Flash forums.
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Jay Armstrong here. I’m one of the writers who works on
the Flash docs.
Regarding this comment and the many others in other threads
that have added important details about the issues with the help
workflow, and in particular the ActionScript help workflow: We hear
your pain and we are working to implement solutions to these
issues.
I understand that this new help workflow is more painful than
in CS3 when you had the Help right in its own panel in the product.
Here’s some background:
The implementation of Help within the Flash Help panel prior
to CS4 required that *all* the Help files be installed on the local
drive with the product, resulting in some issues that we tried to
address in CS4. Including Help on the installation disc caused
issues including:
- Required that Help be completed much earlier for
localization and end-game testing.
- Resulted in static Help files that had been completed early
in the development cycle, sometimes not accounting for last minute
UI or other changes.
- A long install process.
- Crowded the installation disc.
These aren't meant to be full explanations of why we made the
changes, but just some background as to some of the things we were
thinking about. Clearly the decisions we came to weren't the right
ones for many users. We are intent on making things better.
Moving Help online makes it possible to update Help on an
ongoing basis, allows users to comment on and embellish the Help,
and allows us to add links from the help out to new articles,
tutorials, videos, and code samples on adobe.com and throughout the
Flash web community. One of you rightly pointed out that the Adobe
Updater could have been used for some of this, but I believe that
the updater would have required much more rigorous certification by
us of any update packages and the update/install process for each.
We actually are updating the online help files very frequently, so
this process would have been a major barrier to these updates.
We’ve had a struggle about how to deliver the Flash
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vocal about not liking the Help panel consuming space within the
Flash window as well as users who really want it there so they
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of feedback about this, along with other issues that online Help
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the Help-in-a-browser issue a difficult problem, as this aspect of
the Help implementation is baked fairly deep into the CS4 product.
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for viewing Help within Flash itself. As noted in this thread,
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viewers, such as Jamie Kosoy, Technical Director at Big Spaceship,
whose AIR application for the CS4 Language Reference docs is
available at
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We knew that people use the AS3 Language Reference a lot, so
we did install a local, abridged version of that with the product.
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