Flash arranging objects tutorial

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Overview

This is part of the Flash tutorials.

Learning goals

Learn to align objects

Prerequisites

Flash CS3 desktop tutorial

Flash layers tutorial (first part)

Flash drawing tutorial (at least some of it)

Quality and level

This text should technical people get going. It's probably not good enough for beginners, but may be used as handout in "hands-on" class. That is what Daniel K. Schneider made it for...

It aims at beginners. More advanced features and tricks are not explained here.

Summary

To align objects on the stage you got three solutions:

• Use the align panel (Open it with Window->Align or CTRL-K and dock it next to the Colors panel
• Use menu Modify->Align
• Use the shortcuts (see Flash CS3 keyboard shortcuts)

Various align interfaces of Flash CS3

Working with the align panel

With the align panel, you can align, distribute or resize a series of selected objects.

There are two fundamental modes:

• Align/distribute against the stage.
• Align an object against the first one you selected, or distribute among the first two selected

The align panel:

Various align interfaces of Flash CS3