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Undo, redo, and history
Undo, Redo, and Repeat commandsTo undo or redo actions on individual objects,
or all objects within the current document, specify either object-level
or document-level Undo and Redo commands (Edit > Undo
or Edit Redo). The default behavior is document-level Undo and Redo.
You cannot undo some actions when using object-level Undo. Among
these are entering and exiting Edit mode; selecting, editing, and
moving library items; and creating, deleting, and moving scenes.
To remove deleted items from a document after using the
Undo command, use the Save And Compact command.
To reapply a step to the same object or to a different object,
use the Repeat command. For example, if you move a shape named shape_A,
select Edit > Repeat to move the shape again, or select
another shape, shape_B, and select Edit > Repeat to
move the second shape by the same amount.
By default, Flash supports 100 levels
of undo for the Undo menu command. Select the number of undo and
redo levels, from 2 to 9999, in Flash Preferences.
By default, when you undo a step
by using Edit > Undo or the History panel, the file
size of the document does not change, even if you delete an item
in the document. For example, if you import a video file into a
document, and undo the import, the file size of the document still
includes the size of the video file. Any items that you delete from
a document when performing an Undo command are preserved to in order
to be able to restore the items with a Redo command. To permanently
remove the deleted items from the document, and reduce the document
file size, select File > Save And Compact.
Using the History panelThe History panel (Window >
Other Panels > History) shows a list of the steps you’ve
performed in the active document since you created or opened that document,
up to a specified maximum number of steps. (The History panel doesn’t
show steps you’ve performed in other documents.) The slider in the History
panel initially points to the last step that you performed.
To undo or redo individual steps or multiple steps at once,
use the History panel. Apply steps from the History panel to the
same object or to a different object in the document. However, you
cannot rearrange the order of steps in the History panel. The History
panel is a record of steps in the order in which they are performed.
Note: If
you undo a step or a series of steps and then do something new in
the document, you can no longer redo the steps in the History panel;
they disappear from the panel.
To remove deleted items from a document after you undo a
step in the History panel, use the Save And Compact command.
By
default, Flash supports 100 levels
of undo for the History panel. Select the number of undo and redo
levels, from 2 to 9999, in Flash Preferences.
To erase the history list for the current document, clear
the History panel. After clearing the history list, you cannot undo
the steps that are cleared. Clearing the history list does not undo
steps; it removes the record of those steps from the current document’s
memory.
Closing a document clears its history. To
use steps from a document after that document is closed, copy the
steps with the Copy Steps command or save the steps as a command.
Undo steps with the History panelWhen you undo a step, the step is dimmed in
the History panel. To undo the last step performed, drag
the History panel slider up one step in the list.
To undo multiple steps at once, drag the slider to point
to any step, or click to the left of a step along the path of the
slider. The slider scrolls automatically to that step, undoing all
subsequent steps as it scrolls.
Note: Scrolling to
a step (and selecting the subsequent steps) is different from selecting
an individual step. To scroll to a step, click to the left of the
step.
Replay steps with the History panelWhen you replay steps with the History panel,
the steps that play are the steps that are selected (highlighted)
in the History panel, not necessarily the step currently indicated
by the slider.
Apply
steps in the History panel to any selected object in the document.
Replay one step In the History panel, select a step and click
the Replay button. Replay a series of adjacent steps- Select steps in the History panel by
doing one of the following:
Drag from one step to another. (Don’t drag
the slider; drag from the text label of one step to the text label
of another step.)
Select the first step, then Shift-click the last
step; or select the last step and Shift-click the first step.
- Click Replay. The steps replay in order, and a new step,
labeled Replay Steps, appears in the History panel.
Replay nonadjacent steps- Select a step in the History panel,
and Control-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh) other steps.
To deselect a selected step, Control-click or Command-click.
- Click Replay.
Copy and paste steps between documentsEach open document has its own history
of steps. To copy steps from one document and paste them into another,
use the Copy Steps command in the History panel options menu. If
you copy steps into a text editor, the steps are pasted as JavaScript™ code.
- In the document containing the steps to reuse,
select the steps in the History panel.
- In the History panel options menu, select Copy Steps.
- Open the document to paste the steps into.
- Select an object to apply the steps to.
- Select Edit > Paste to paste the steps. The
steps play back as they’re pasted into the document’s History panel.
The History panel shows them as only one step, called Paste Steps.
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