In Flash Catalyst, the Properties panel gives you access to all of the basics attributes for an object, such as location, width, height, and others. When you select components like buttons, radio buttons, and checkboxes, there are component properties that can be set as well. You can define button labels and radio button groups, define …
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When you make changes to the location, opacity, rotation, or size of your components, Flash Catalyst captures those changes across states and automatically creates transitions. In addition to these automatically created effects, you can create your own directly on the Timeline. By selecting an object, you can use a number of 3D rotation effects, set …
Sometimes you may want to quickly render for only a selected part of your 3D object to save time and check for specific lighting effects. That’s now possible by simply making a selection on the area you want to render, and going to 3D>Progressive Render Selection.
Ever needed to change the amount of space between a number of aligned items on the page? To do it interactively, first select the items on the page with the Selection tool (notice that CS5 now provides a transformation bounding box around multiple selected items!) Click-and-drag one of the handles of the bounding box to …
If you’ve applied fancy attributes like art or pattern brushes, or even variable width to strokes, but you want to reset them to simple strokes, a new setting in the Stroke panel (also accessible from the Control and Appearance panels) is made for doing just that.