Flash :: Keyboard Shortcut For 'Next Frame' In Timeline?

Keyboard Shortcut Mapping For F5
Has anyone experienced this:

******BUG******
Keyboard mismatch problem in Flash. The key F5 maps to the capitol letter C. Editing the keyboard mapping set doesn't solve the problem. Using U.S. English (default) keyboard but have in the past used French and British English with other applications.

It is probably a support issue for Apple (though I've only experienced it in Flash). I'm heading over there but I thought I'd let you know in case you've heard from others about this issue.

Steps to reproduce bug:
1. Open Keyboard Shortcuts editor, create a duplicate set.
2. Go to Menu item Timeline --> Frame
3. Type the F5 key
Results: The capitol letter "C"
Expected results: The letter/number "F5"

Keyboard Shortcut Problem
Hi.
When I'm trying to test my movie in Flash CS3 I get a problem with key listeners.
* If in my movie I'm using a key wich is a shortcut as well then it's not working.
How can I fix it ?

Keyboard Shortcut Nightmare ?
I am having severe difficulty implementing keyboard shortcuts in my movie. The problem is the Browser (Well Internet Explorer) which takes precedence on any Keyboard Shortcut i set up.

Example:

Ctrl+p - in my movie should bring the user to the phrase tab

IE takes precedence and launchs a new print dialog window.

This is not a problem with firefox, if the movie has focus it takes precedence.

has anybody come up against this problem ?? i cant seem to find a solution anywhere ...

Keyboard Shortcut: Instance Name
I'm am always finding myself wanting a keyboard shortcut to jump to the properties tab "Instance Name" to add an instance name for a movie clip/button, whatever. Does anybody know if there is one or if I can customize a keyboard shortcut to do that?

Keyboard Shortcut Question?
Hey Guys, I posted this question awhile back on the flashkit forum and no one had an answer for me. Basically, I was wondering if there was a keyboard short cut to move to the next or previous keyframe? I know the keyboard shortcut to move ahead or behind one frame at a time but nothing on moving from keyframe to keyframe. I've searched all over the place for info regarding this and came up with nothing. It would be such a time saver when editing in the timeline.

Thanks,
S.O.B

Keyboard Shortcut Print Sheet, Anyone?
I am looking for a compiled, layed out and ready for print, Keyboard Shortcuts Sheet.
And yes I know you can export the keyboard shortcuts as an html file, well have you seen the file/page it makes? On a home printer it would take 6 pages to print, only because it's layed out long ways.
I realize I could spend some time re-aligning the tables and making it print ready but I figured mabey it's already been done and out there somewhere, ready to be shared.

Thanks,

Context Menu Keyboard Shortcut
Hey there,

This may seem an odd question, and there may be an obvious answer and I'm probably looking too hard, but is there a way to load up the context menu (normally right-click (win) or command-click (mac)) using the keyboard only?

Any help would be appreciated...

Cheers,
Marty

Keyboard Shortcut - Play Button
Does anyone know how to detect the playbutton that's on many keyboards in production today?

Pin Script Shortcut On Qwertz Keyboard
THis is not an actionscript 2.0 question but a mx2004 one.

I really enjoyed the new possibility which allow to pin script (even if the script editor is not as complete as other extenal one...), but I discovered with anger that I can't use the pin script shortcut (usually ctr-=) on my qwertz keyboard ;(

My question:

Do someone managed to use the ctr-= shortcut on a qwertz keyboard? or have found some equivalent?

THank you for your help.

Best regards

Keyboard Shortcut For Entering 'Instance Name'
Is there a keyboard shortcut for entering an instance name for a movieclip or button when you have the item selected in the stage? I assume it would just jump me to the properties panel, but even if it were an alert-style window that would be fine.

Oignon Skin Keyboard Shortcut
Is there a shortcut to toggle to oignon skin?

Mac---> Flash MX

Brush Size Keyboard Shortcut
After looking I couldn't find a keyboard shortcut that controls brush size. Is there a way to set brush size to the bracket keys, as in Photoshop?

...Forgot to note: I am running Flash Pro 8, but would like to know if there is a solution in either 8 or CS3.

Thanks.

Edited: 04/25/2007 at 01:50:57 PM by adam@blueapplestudio

How Do I Get A Button To Mimic A Keyboard Shortcut?
I want a button in my flash movie to toggle the zoom in function of the context menu that pops up when you right click a movie. Please HELP!

Assigning A New Keyboard Shortcut That Isn't Default
In CS4, I'd like to to assign a keyboard shortcut to the "Smooth" tool (which comes up when you click pointer.) How can I do this? When I click on Tools Panel in the Keyboard Shortcut menu, it isn't an option and it also isn't listed in the Customize Tools menu. I figuring, if I replace one of the available tools with the smooth tool (again, not the one associated with pencil, but the one that appears when you click pointer), I can do it. But how can I replace or add to the available tools?
I'm using a mac, tiger 10.11.4
Thanks

Edited: 11/20/2008 at 04:08:31 PM by kisia777

How Do I Get A Button To Mimic A Keyboard Shortcut?
I want a button in my flash movie to toggle the zoom in function of the context menu that pops up when you right click a movie. Please HELP!

Is There A Keyboard Shortcut 4 Paste In Place
If there is it would be great.

What's The Keyboard Shortcut For Copying Frames In MX 2004?
Can someone tell me what the keyboard shortcut for copying frames in MX 2004 is?

I used to luv using 'ctrl alt c' and 'ctrl alt v'.
But that keyboard shortcut isn't there anymore!

Thanks.

Jam

Flash MX Zoom Tool Keyboard Shortcut
I'm going crazy trying to find keys which will temporarily give me the selection tool, the zoom tool, and also there seem to be several panels in Flash MX which don't have a close button and I have to scroll all the way down to Close in the panel's options. Must be easier ways of doing this like in all the other programs!

Keyboard Shortcut For Anti-alias Text
Hi, I've been finishing up a huge project, it's largely text based and now that it's gone through QA, there is a problem with blurriness. The font is set to arial, font size 12, aliased (pixelated) but as soon as i navigate through any swfs, it goes blurry. I have tried literally everything else, but setting it back to anti-aliased, obviously makes it look okay.

Well, I have to go back and set all the text to anti-aliased now, so I was wondering is there a keyboard shortcut that I can use to change a text box to anti-aliased quickly?

I have about 2000+ text boxes to go through so anything that could speed up the process would be really appreciated.

Import/export .wxf Keyboard Shortcut Prefs
Can anyone share some insight as to the portability of the .wfx keyboard shortcuts files? I'm planning on making the switch to Flash CS3 (v.9) from MX Pro 2004 (v.7) and would like to migrate my extensive custom keyboard shortcuts rather than have to rebuild from scratch. One big reason I held back from upgrading to v.8 was this very issue. I've been able to successfuly copy my .jsfl files between the corresponding Commands folders with v.7 and v.8, and assumed doing the same with .wfx files would work just as well. After copying over, the custom key set does show up in the app, but all the bindings are lost.

Edited: 04/24/2007 at 08:44:31 AM by 9re9

Is There A Keyboard Shortcut For Changing Brush Size?
Is there a keyboard shortcut for changing brush size in flash MX?

Just like in photoshop you can use the [ and ] brackets to make the brush incrementally larger and smaller. I'm getting annoyed of going back to the tool bar all the time to change brush size...

thanks

Flash MX 2004 Keyboard Shortcut Woes
I just recently purchased 2004 Professional (the academic version) and I can't get the align shortcuts to work...

I've snooped around in the forums and can't find any similar complaints?? I've also modified the shortcut keys (edit->keyboard shortcuts) to some alternate sequences just for testing as well as installing the latest update but still no love. Any ideas? this is driving me crazy! Thanks a lot.

potamus

ps. the other shortcuts are working fine... I also tested them by making changes to them and trying them again, ensuring I was actually using the correct keyboard shortcuts profile.

FMX2004 Keyboard Shortcut For Tabbed Windows
Is there a keyboard shortcut to switch between multiple open windows? If not does anyone know how to set it up?

For example, in my project I have several .as files as well as an .fla file open. I want to switch b/w them.

Thanks in advance, I know the answer is probably obvious but I can't seem to find it.

Potamus.

Shortcut To Tab Between Actionscript & Timeline Panel
Hi guys

I have a shortcut question.

Here I am happily writing my actionscript in my actionscript box, now I want to progress onto the next frame of my timeline (shortcut key . ) however if I press . I just write a . in my actionscript, so how can I tab between my actions panel and timeline panel using just the keyboard?

i know I can click on the timeline with the mouse, but that wastes time.....

cheersies.

Keyboard Shortcut 'Left Arrow' And 'Right Arrow' Don't Work
I have an iMac running CS3 on 10.4.11

I'm using the normal keyboard that came with the mac, and the arrow keys are not moving the playhead in the timeline back or forward a frame at a time. Is there something I need to do to the keyboard to get this shortcut to work?

Controlling Timeline With Keyboard
I need some help. I am currently designing a game and would like to Pause the entire game when the "P" key is hit and to quit the game when the "Q" button is hit. The code I currently have is as follows and is on an action frame:

keyboardlistener = new Object();
keyboardlistener.onKeyDown = new function()
{
if(Key.isDown(80))
{
if(_root.pause)
{
_root.pause = false;
}
else
{
_root.pause = true;
}

}
else if(Key.isDown(81))
{
_root.gotoAndPlay("reset");
}
}
Key.addListener(keyboardlistener);

If anyone can assist me in getting these buttons working correctly it woul be greatly appreciated.

Keyboard Timeline Control
Hi people. I'm trying something like this:

on (keyPress "<Left>") {
bottom_mc.gotoAndStop(2);
}

But when I put this on the timeline I am told that this action is only permitted but buttons. Can anyone help?

A.

Please Help--Using Keyboard Input To Navigate Through Timeline
I am making a "You Don't Know Jack" type game. My problem is this...

I want to use keyboard input to let a player buzz in, like the z and / buttons. In my movie I have it stop on a certain frame while the players read the question. Then when they buzz in with their key, I want it to goto another frame.

I have tried an invisible button with the on keypress option, but it seems it doesn't detect but about 30% of the presses. I have also tried putting it in a MC and using onClipEvent(enterframe) and detecting keypresses that way, but I do not know how to tell the main timeline to go to a certain frame from inside the MovieClip.

So I guess I want to know this. How do I get a smooth keypress detector on the main timeline that will trigger some variable changes and send me to another frame, OR how do I control the maintimeline navigation from within a movie clip? (Actually both answers would be helpful).

Thanks

Darren

Keyboard Shortcuts For Timeline Don't Work
Hello All,

None of the Timeline keyboard shortcuts for "Move Keyframe" (Up, Down, Left, Right) nor "Select Frame" (Left, Right, Above, Below) work for me. Period and comma move the playhead, and I can copy/paste frames, but I cannot select additional frames and cannot move them up, down, or over with the built-in commands. Other keyboard shortcuts work just fine for me.

I've used the default settings, made my own, tried using combinations that don't use the ctrl, alt, or shift keys for the shortcut... nothing seems to help. I've also used two different keyboards with different drivers, and have reinstalled Flash - nothing fixes it.

WinXP Pro sp2, 1.8 GHz Athlon Processor, 1 G RAM, 500+ Gb drives with plenty of extra space. Flash 8 Pro installed on a drive other than C:.

I have searched the forum and the knowledge index on and off for a few weeks now, but haven't seen anything about this issue.

Thanks to anyone who can give me some insight into this.

Keyboard Events Controlling Timeline
I'm fairly new to this, so it could be something really easy (I hope)
I want to control what frame I'm on with the "F" keys. Right now both F keys bringing me to frame 6 instead of F4 bringing me to frame 4.

Attach Code

stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, reportKeyDown);
stage.addEventListener(KeyboardEvent.KEY_DOWN, reportKeyDown2);

function reportKeyDown(event:KeyboardEvent):void
{
if (event.keyCode == Keyboard.F4);
{
gotoAndStop(4);
}
};
function reportKeyDown2(event:KeyboardEvent):void
{
if (event.keyCode == Keyboard.F5);
{
gotoAndStop(6);
}
};

stop();

Navigating In The Timeline With Keyboard And Mouse
I am currently working on creating a presentation in flash that contains similar functionality that PowerPoint has (minus the cheesy effects and graphics...hence the reason I'm doing it in Flash). What I am needing to do is have the flash movie go back and forth from "slide" to "slide" via the left and right arrow keys on the keyboard. I've thought about setting it up so that when either the left or right keyboard arrow is pressed, it then goes to the previous or next frame label in my movie to display the information present under that frame label. That would require setting up a lot of individually named frame labels. Is there a way to use variables in conjuncture with frame labels so that I can do this more efficiently? I was wondering if setting up frame labels like the following "label1", "label2", etc and then telling flash to go to that frame but adding either a "++" to take the current label and add "1" to it or "--" to subtract "1" from the current label number. Would something like that work?

I've also thought about writing some functions that contain the code to do this and then using those to advance or rewind the presentation. Any thoughts?

I hope this isn't too confusing. Please let me know if you have any idea of how to make this kind of functionality in Flash without having to label everything.

Thanks!!!!!!
phil

Keyboard Shortcuts For Moving Thru The Timeline?
Quick question:

Are there any keyboard shortcuts for moving frame by frame thru the Timeline in Flash? I'm used to video editing apps and am confused. I did experiment and found on my PC if I hold down Shift key and scroll the clickwheel on my mouse, I can move thru the Timeline sort of frame by frame, but this isn't perfect as it's hard to control.

Thanks in advance

Jumping To Another Frame By Using The Keyboard?
Hi all!

Well, I have made a slideshow in Flash 5, and the thing is that on frame 1 there´s a picture that should be shown (it´s stopped there), but if you press the spacekey, then it should go to frame 10 and play.

The same way there, if you hit space when it´s playing (it´s looping between frame 10 and the last frame), then it should jump to frame 1 and stop (and show the picture again).

Here´s the actionscript on frame 1:

stop ();
if (Key.isDown(key.Space)) {
}
gotoAndPlay (10);

But it doesn´t work? I haven´t been doing anything for so long time, so my brain probably have melted down.

Thanks for all help in advance!

Sincerely
Henrik

Should Be Easy. How Do I Get A Frame In A Movie To Go&play A Frame In Main Timeline?
Hi,

I trying to get a frame in a movie clip (that's 1 level down the hierachy) to gotoAndPlay a frame that's on the main timeline that's labeled "Fade1".

How do I do it?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I'm using Flash 5.

Dan

Cant Get Frame In Main Timeline To Play Frame In Movie Clip
Hi all,

Ok, I want a section of a movieclip to play up until a certain frame on the main, or _root timeline. Then I want a different section of the same movie clip to play. Now I have the movie clip all set up all fine and dandy, yet I cant get it to the frames or 'section' it is playing when it reaches the apropriate frame. I have the following code on the _root timeline frame.

Code:
gotoAndPlay("stop");
(I have a frame label "stop" where it should be) Is this the right code I should be using? It has worked in the past, but it has been in between an on (something) event/action (not quite sure of the correct termanology there)

Please help.

How To Change Current Frame With Keyboard?
I was wondering how you can bind a certain framenumber (or name) to a key on your keyboard, for instance key '1' will take you to frame 1 (and stop), and key '2' will take you to frame 2, and so on.
Does anyone have a solution for this? Thanks in advance.

How Do U Start & Stop MC On Frame 3 On The Timeline & Proceed Onto Frame 4 W/ New MC
1.What I'm doing is setting up a "Cell Phone Slide Show" to load images and .AVI’s (Movie Clips) into the phone screen strictly when the user presses the cell phone button. So, when the user presses the cell phone buttons (“OK”, #1, #2, #3, “CLR”, etc.., an image or MC loads into the cell phone screen.

2.My Time Line consists of 5 Layers: actions, cell phone buttons, cell phone screens items, cell phone, cell phone description

3.“action” Layer uses: stop(); from Frame 1 to Frame 5 – to stop at the last frame 5.

“cell phone buttons” Layer uses: on (release) {nextFrame(); } from Frame 1 to Frame 5 – to proceed to the next frame.

”cell phone description” – from Frame 1 to 5 - loads a new cell phone text description on each frame.

”cell phone” - from Frame 1 to 5 – just a background image of the cell phone.

“cell phone screen items”: I am loading images and Movie Clips on this Layer. For example, Frame 1: Image, Frame 2: Movie Clip (the movie needs to start and stop to go into frame 3). Frame 3: Another Movie Clip (the movie needs to start and stop to go into frame 4).
Frame 4: an image with movie clip label. Frame 6: Another Movie Clip (the movie needs to start and stop to go into frame 7).
Frame 8: an image with movie clip label. Etc…… This will proceed to 30 frames.

I am trying to start and stop these movies on specific frames by adding action within that frame on it’s own separate Time Line:
This Movie Clip time line consists of 70 frames. The Movie Clip is called: “tud_vid1”. I put a Label on frame 1 called: “Start” and put a label on frame 70 called: “stop”

My code for this Movie Clip Time Line is:

_root.tud_vid1.gotoAndPlay(start);
_root.tud_vid1.gotoAndStop(stop);

4.The problem I’m having is instead of the Movie Clip on Frame 3, for example, Starting and Stopping when the user clicks on the cell phone button, and going onto Frame 4 to play the next Movie Clip (with Start and Stop Action) ; the Movie Clip on Frame 3, “Keeps on Looping” and doesn’t move onto Frame 4.

5.How would I set up this “Cell Phone SlideShow” to Start and Stop my .AVI’s on each frame and move onto the next frame and play the next movie from beginning to end or play the next image.

6.I attached a screen shot of my main time line: CellPhone_Timeline1.jpg

7.I attached a screen shot of the separate Movie Clip time line on frame 3: CellPhone_MC_Timeline1

Help Load A Movie (and Frame) On A Specific Frame In My Timeline
I need to Load a movie and go to a specific frame within that loaded movie.

I know how to do this "on press & release" commands but how do I get it to load when a certain frame is reached in my timeline.

Example. When finished preloading it plays frame 25. When it gets to frame 25 I wan't a movie to load and start on a certain frame.

If you need more info or I am not making myself clear, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

Help With Keyboard Input Functions To Jump To Frame
Is there any way to use the keyboard to type in 2 digits in an on(keyPress "") command?
For example:
on(keyPress"21"){this.gotoAndStop(21);
}
to jump to frame 21?
I am trying to create a slideshow style presentation, but have the ability to jump to various frames (more than 9 frames).

OR

How could I set up ActionScript so that the user can type in a 2 or 3 digit # and then hit enter to jump to that correspondnig frame? I do not want any buttons on screen, just typing on the keyboard.
Right now I have the AS on a button that is on every frame, but off the stage and out of view when the swf is published.

I really appreciate any help.

Keyboard Shortcut For 'Next Frame' In Timeline?

Anyone seen anything like this before?If you're working with many, many frames in the timeline and you could just press a kotkey combo instead of dragging the mouse over there to highlight the next frame, it'd be pretty handy.

Anyone seen anything like this before?

If you're working with many, many frames in the timeline and you could just press a kotkey combo instead of dragging the mouse over there to highlight the next frame, it'd be pretty handy.