From the Flash menu (Mac) or Edit menu (Windows), choose Preferences in the Category list, choose General.
You can change these highlight colors in the Preferences dialog. If you're using a background color that's similar to a highlight color, for example, the selection highlight may blend in. In certain situations the selection highlight may be difficult to see. By default, Flash CS4 uses a different color to highlight each type of graphic-object (drawing-objects, primitives, groups, symbols, and all other elements). Whenever you select a graphic element on the Stage, Flash highlights it. From the Category list, choose General ( Figure 4.1).From the Flash menu (Mac) or the Edit menu (Windows), choose Preferences.To set selection methods for the selection tools: For the selection-outline method, you decide if the outline must fully enclose a graphic-object to select it or if enclosing any part of a graphic-object selects the whole thing. For the click method, you choose whether you must Shift-click to select multiple items or whether you can merely click additional items to add to a selection. You can set preferences to gain more control over these two methods. There are two basic ways to make a selection in Flash: one is to click an element directly, and the other is to enclose all or part of an element with a selection outline. You also learn about using the Property inspector and other panels to modify elements' attributes. This chapter covers using the selection, lasso, and subselection tools to select and modify the elements you learned to make in Chapter 2. A few operations let you edit the element whether it's selected or not-using the paint-bucket tool to change a fill color, for example. Others, such as reshaping a line segment or curve with the selection tool, require the element to be deselected. Some operations-such as straightening lines, adjusting Bézier curves, and assigning new attributes-require that the element be selected. You can also modify the path that creates the shape of an element. One way to modify graphics in Adobe Flash CS4 Professional is to select one or more shapes and edit them by changing their attributes (such as color, size, and location) in the Property inspector or in other appropriate panels. Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide
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