Lesson
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Flash: Interactive Web Animation
Excerpted and modified from the Macromedia MX Flash Help File
Distributing Objects to Layers
You can quickly distribute selected objects in a frame to separate layers to apply tweened animation to the objects. The objects can be on one or more layers initially. Flash distributes each object to a new, separate layer. Any objects that you don't select (including objects in other frames) are preserved in their original positions.
You can apply the Distribute to Layers command to any type of element on the Stage, including graphic objects, instances, bitmaps, video clips, and broken-apart text blocks.
Applying the Distribute to Layers command to broken-apart text makes it easy to create animated text. The characters in the text are placed in separate text blocks during the Break Apart operation, and each text block is placed on a separate layer during the Distribute to Layers process. For information on breaking text apart, see Breaking text apart.
To distribute objects to layers, you select the objects in one or more layers and choose Distribute to Layers from the Modify menu or from the context menu.
To distribute objects to layers:
| 1 | Select the objects that you want to distribute to layers. The objects can be in a single layer, or in several layers, including noncontiguous layers. |
| 2 | Do one of the following: |
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Choose Modify > Timeline > Distribute to Layers. |
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Right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) one of the selected objects and choose Distribute to Layers from the context menu. |
Lesson
4: Pt. 3
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