FLASH: Why is it so hard to select the entire timeline??

[Rebecca Lovelace]

I have a Flash movie that was given to me and I need to resize everything

and break it into multiple Flash movies.  All I want to do is select the

entire timeline from one scene, resize everything, copy it all, and paste it

into a new Flash movie.


This seems pretty straightforward.


I selected Edit Multiple Frames, and stretched the bar out for the whole

relevant area of the timeline.  But there is no way to easily select

everything (all layers).

Sometimes Select All works, sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes dragging a selection box around the entire stage area works,

sometimes it doesn't.

Sometimes making sure everything in the timeline appears black (selected),

sometimes it doesn't.


I am finding that I have to try some combination of these things in order to

select everything I want to select, and there appears to be no rhyme or

reason to it.


Can anyone shed any light on this?  Is there a standard, always-working, way

to do what I am trying to do?  Is there some reason (blank keyframes or

something) why one of these methods above does not work consistently?  To

me, this seems like a bug (any Beta testers out there who can report it?),

but maybe I just don't understand something.  I am finding no correspondence

between what shows as black in the timeline ("selected") and what is

actually selected, and I am very frustrated.


Thanks!!


Rebecca Lovelace 

Funnybone Interactive



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