Hide selection highlighting, Set preferences for selecting – Adobe Flash Professional CC 2014 v.13.0 User Manual

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Draw a selection area with both freehand and straight-line edges

When you use the Lasso tool and its Polygon Mode modifier, you can switch between the freehand and straight-edged selection modes.

1. Deselect the Polygon Mode modifier of the Lasso tool.

2. To draw a freehand segment, drag the Lasso tool on the Stage.

3. To draw straight-edged segments, hold down the Alt key (Windows) or Option key (Macintosh) and click to set start and end points for each

new line segment.

4. To close the selection area, do one of the following:

Release the mouse button; Flash Professional will close the selection area for you.

Double-click on the starting end of the selection area line.

Hide selection highlighting

Hiding highlighting while you are selecting and editing objects lets you see how artwork appears in its final state.

Select View > Hide Edges.

Select the command again to show selection highlighting.

Set custom bounding box colors for selected objects

You can set different colors to be used for the bounding box rectangles that appear around different kinds of selected objects on the Stage.

1. Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Flash > Preferences (Macintosh).

2. Click the General category.

3. In the Highlight Color section, select a color for each type of object and click OK.

Set preferences for selecting

The Pointer, Subselection, and Lasso tools select objects by clicking on them. The Pointer and Subselection tools select objects by dragging a
rectangular selection marquee around the object. The Lasso tool selects objects by dragging a free-form selection marquee around the object.
When an object is selected, a rectangular box appears around the object.

1. Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Flash > Preferences (Macintosh).

2. In the General category of the Preferences dialog box, do one of the following:

To select only objects and points that are completely enclosed by the selection marquee, deselect Contact-Sensitive Selection and
Lasso tools. Points that lie within the selection area will still be selected.

To select objects or groups that are only partially enclosed by the selection marquee, select Contact-Sensitive Selection and Lasso
tools.