Lab 1: Flash Basics Hints
To color several states at once, you'll need to ungroup the states first. For this USA-cs3.fla file, all the states open in a grouped status (except for Hawaii). To ungroup: select all the states on the map, then hold shift down, and click on Hawaii to deselect it. Then go to the top menu bar Modify --> Ungroup. Now you will be able to select and color multiple states by clicking with the shift key down.
Wondering if a state is grouped or ungrouped? Flash displays them with different colored bounding boxes. Group states appear with a thin teal bounding box and ungrouped objects are a thin black bounding box.
I really want to use this blog as a source of Flash hint and tricks for our labs. Please post any questions, comments, solutions you find. Thanks!
posted by Jill Hallden @ 1/29/2009 11:50:00 AM
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Also, if you do happen to select all the states and color them, it's a smart idea to just group them all together so you can later change the fill color of all the states again without having to select each one individually if you want to.
Sadly, unlike illustrator, flash doesn't give you the option to select objects with similar fills or strokes, hence having to reselect every time.
So group things that are related! (but with flash, make sure you don't group everything you think is related; remember, once you start with tweens, motions, etc., if things are grouped, it will affect it all!)
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