Problem You want to add to a layer content that you do not want to be published. Solution Put the content on a guide layer. Discussion Guide layers can be used to store elements visible on the stage during authoring, which do not export with the .swf file. Guide layers have a number of potential uses: Meta information -
Instructions or notes left for oneself or other developers. Alignment -
To align several elements in different layers to a path, draw the path in a guide layer, and then drag each of the elements to it. Asset repository -
Store assets in a guide layer for easy viewing and retrieval. In most cases, the library is a more sensible solution for this purpose, but the library can preview only one asset at a time, and you may need to choose from several actual size assets. To create a guide layer, follow these steps: Create a new layer. Populate it with content, as needed, and fill it out with keyframes and frames as needed. Convert it to a guide layer. To do so, right-click (Windows) or Control-click (Macintosh) the layer, and choose Guide from the context menu. Alternatively, you can specify a layer as a guide layer from the Layer Properties dialog box (Modify Timeline Layer Properties). You can revert a guide layer back to a regular layer the same way.
After the layer has been converted to a guide layer, the layer icon (to the left of the layer name) changes to a T-square tool. |