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Using scenes and the Scene panel

To organize a movie thematically, you can use scenes. For example, you might use separate scenes for an introduction, a loading message, and credits.

When you publish a Flash movie that contains more than one scene, the scenes in the movie play back in the order they are listed in the Scene panel in the Flash document. Frames in the movie are numbered consecutively through scenes. For example, if a movie contains two scenes with ten frames each, the frames in Scene 2 are numbered 11-20.

You can add, delete, duplicate, rename, and change the order of scenes.

To stop or pause a movie after each scene, or to let users navigate the movie in a nonlinear fashion, you use actions. See Creating Interaction with ActionScript.

Scene panel

To display the Scene panel:

Choose Window > Scene.

To view a particular scene:

Choose View > Go To and then choose the name of the scene from the submenu.

To add a scene, do one of the following:

| Click the Add Scene button in the Scene panel.
| Choose Insert > Scene.

To delete a scene, do one of the following:

| Click the Delete Scene button in the Scene panel.
| Open the scene you want to delete and choose Insert > Remove Scene.

To change the name of a scene:

Double-click the scene name in the Scene panel and enter the new name.

To duplicate a scene:

Click the Duplicate Scene button in the Scene panel.

To change the order of a scene in the movie:

Drag the scene name to a different location in the Scene panel.