Selecting frames

Before you can work with a frame, you must select it as the current frame. The contents of the current frame appear in the document window.

You can select multiple frames, either contiguous or discontiguous, to edit them or apply commands to them as a group. When multiple frames are selected, only the current frame appears in the document window.

In the Animation palette, the current frame is indicated by a narrow border (inside the shaded selection highlight) around the frame thumbnail. Selected frames are indicated by a shaded highlight around the frame thumbnails.

To select the current frame:

Do one of the following:

• Click a frame in the Animation palette.
• Click a frame in the Rollovers palette. If necessary, expand the state that contains the animation to view its frames. (See Using the Rollovers palette.)
• In the Animation palette or the Layers palette, click the Forward button to select the next frame in the series as the current frame.
• In the Animation palette or the Layers palette, click the Backward button to select the previous frame in the series as the current frame.
• In the Animation palette, click the Select First Frame button to select the first frame in the series as the current frame.

To select multiple frames:

In the Animation palette, do one of the following:

• To select contiguous multiple frames, Shift-click a second frame. The second frame and all frames between the first and second are added to the selection.
• To select discontiguous multiple frames, Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) additional frames to add those frames to the selection.
• To select all frames, choose Select All Frames from the Animation palette menu.

To deselect a frame in a multiframe selection:

Ctrl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) a frame to deselect it.