I realize this is no great secret in the flash world (changing your keyboard shortcuts). The default setting is (SHIFT F12). Like most Flash Developers / Designers we adapt to our surroundings. If that be using a PC / Mac / someone else’s fla / code / etc. Over the past few months I was presented with several projects where I had to compile multiple fla files. This is not too bad until you do cntrl+enter wait for the preview – close it – ctrl+enter review the changes and start the process over again. So I finally started to use (SHIFT F12) but depending on when I rebooted or changed my apple prefs I kept adjusting my volume and long story short it was getting to be a pain.
I personally like using CTRL and Backspace (DELETE on mac keyboard). The only drawback is that you may accidentally delete something. :/ But 99.9% of the time its uber quick.
To get to the menu just go to “Edit” > “Keyboard Shortcuts…” – Duplicate the current set. The “Publish” option that does not also generate a preview is under “File” and about 1/2 ways down.
Hope this helps.
You can create a command to publish all the open files. Jesse Warden did a post on it a while ago http://jessewarden.com/2004/05/jsfl-publish-all.html Super easy to set up and a huge time saver.
Create a Flash Project, add all of your fla files, Define a default file, ctrl + alt + p this will publish (compile) all of your fla files.
If working in the Flash IDE this is handy… Or if you have more than 2 fla files.
Sweet. You’re both right and that works great if you want to publish an entire project / or files open.
Many times tho I have 5 files open but at that time I am just working on 2 (the main.fla and another section.fla). With a use case like that I would not want to wait for all 5 files to build just to preview the change I made in the 1 file.
Maybe I am just lazy by not wanting to close all but the ones I am working on. haha :/
very good the shift+delete is the closest ive found to SHIFT+F12
thanks