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testing Your movie
You can quickly preview your animation by “scrubbing” the red playhead back and
forth on the Timeline or by choosing Control > Play. You can also use the inte-
grated controller at the bottom of the Timeline or choose Window > Toolbars >
Controller to display a separate controller panel.
However, to preview your animation as your audience will see it and to preview any
nested animations within movie clip symbols, you should test your movie. Choose
Control > Test Movie > in Flash Professional.
Flash exports a SWF file and saves it in the same location as your FLA file. The
SWF file is the compressed, final Flash media that you would embed in an HTML
page to play in a browser. Flash displays the SWF file in a new window with the
exact Stage dimensions and plays your animation.
P Note: The exported
SWF in Test Movie mode
will loop automatically.
To prevent the looping
in Test Movie mode,
choose Control >
Loop to deselect the
loop option.
P Note: If you’ve
targeted a different
publishing platform
in the Publish Settings
(such as Adobe AIR),
those options will
be available for you
in the Control > Test
Movie menu.
To exit Test Movie mode, click the Close window button.
You can also preview your animation by choosing Control > Test Movie > in Browser,
and Flash will export a SWF file and open it automatically in your default browser.
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