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Managing multiple floating boxes


The Floating Boxes palette helps you manage multiple layered floating boxes in your document window by showing or hiding and locking and unlocking boxes temporarily.

Note: These settings in the Floating Boxes palette are only temporary and will be overridden when you click the Play button in the TimeLine Editor or switch document views.

You can also use the Floating Boxes palette to position floating boxes with a grid (see Positioning floating boxes).

To manage multiple floating boxes in a document window:

1 Choose Window > Floating Boxes palette. The Floating Boxes palette lists the floating boxes present in the active window.

A. Click the eye icon to hide or show the content of a floating box. B. Click the "pen" icon to lock or unlock a floating box. C. Click the name to bring a floating box to the foreground. D. Locks the floating box in editing view

2 Click the name (layer, layer 1, etc.) to activate a floating box in the document window for editing and to bring it to the front. Clicking the name of a floating box temporarily overrides the hide/show and lock/unlock statuses in the following steps.

3 Click the eye icon to hide or show the content of a floating box, or Ctrl-click any eye icon to hide or show all floating boxes at once, as follows:

  • Dimmed eye icon indicates that the floating box is invisible.
  • Black indicates that the floating box is visible.
  • Red indicates that the temporary show/hide settings made in the Floating Boxes palette conflict with the current visibility status of the floating box (see Controlling the visibility of floating boxes), as set in the Floating Box Inspector for a particular keyframe. For example, the eye icon is red if you have hidden a floating box in the Floating Boxes palette that is supposed to be visible in the animation.

    • Note: Red indicates a conflict rather than an error. Your animation will play back without any problems.

    4 Click the pen icon to lock or unlock a floating box, or Ctrl-click any pen icon to lock or unlock all floating boxes at once. When locked, the pen icon is dimmed in the Floating Boxes palette, and you cannot drag the floating box or edit its content in the document window.

    5 The padlock icon in the upper right corner of the Floating Boxes palette lets you preserve all temporary hide/show and lock/unlock settings when you click the Play button in the TimeLine Editor or switch views--for example, from Layout to Source and back.

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