Why use Ctrl-A just to see properties of a movie clip

I'm going through Todd Perkins' video tutorials for
ActionScript 3.0 (very good, btw) and in Chapter 5 "Handling Mouse
Clicks" there's a point where Todd says 'note that the movie clip
in the animation layer, if I lock everything else except for the
animation layer and press Ctrl-A, you can see that it's called
animation_mc".
Question - why do I need to lock all the other layers and
then hit Ctrl-A just to see the properties of the animation layer?
Once I've followed these steps and I can see the properties of
animation_mc, if I unlock just one of the other layers the
properties pane changes and shows me details of a frame. What's
going on here?
Thanks.

quote:
Originally posted by:
Newsgroup User
jcbluesman,
> Question - why do I need to lock all the other layers
> and then hit Ctrl-A just to see the properties of the
> animation layer?
>> You don't. You can select that particular movie clip
simply by clicking
>>on it -- but, as often as not, your symbol might be
layered under other
>>content, even partially or wholly obscured by it. In
cases like that,
>>locking and unlocking groups of layers can make quick
work of finding assets
>>on the Stage.
> if I unlock just one of the other layers the properties
> pane changes and shows me details of a frame. What's
> going on here?
>> The Property inspector is context sensitive, so it
changes based on what
>>you have selected. As soon as you unlock another
layer, you've changed your
>>selection. That happens because you've clicked on a
layer to unlock it. By
>>clicking the layer, you select the first frame of
that layer, which is what
>> updates the Property inspector.
David Stiller
Co-author, Foundation Flash CS4 for Designers
http://tinyurl.com/5j55cv
"Luck is the residue of good design."
Thank you very much, David! I was thinking that when I hit
Ctrl-A I was selecting all the layers and I know better than that.
If I'd thought about it longer, I could have figured out I was
selecting everything on the stage. In this particular case, my
movie starts out with nothing but white the first few frames and
the stage is white. Add in the fact that I'm new to Flash and I
confused myself into thinking the movie wasn't really represented
on the stage. My mistake.

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