Control menu commands provide playback controls to test your animation in the program window, the Flash Player, and HTML pages.
Windows: Enter
Mac: Return
Plays the timeline in the Flash window, showing the contents of each frame on the stage.
Windows: Shift+comma (,)
Mac: Shift-comma (,)
Moves the playhead in the timeline back to the first frame.
Windows: Shift+period (.)
Mac: Shift-period (.)
Moves the playhead in the timeline to the last frame.
Windows: period (.)
Mac: period (.)
Moves the playhead in the timeline ahead one frame.
Windows: comma (,)
Mac: comma (,)
Moves the playhead in the timeline back one frame.
Windows: Ctrl+Enter
Mac: ⌘-Return
The Text Movie option leads to a submenu, where you can choose to test your movie in Flash Professional, Device Central, AIR Debug Launcher (Desktop), or AIR Debug Launcher (Mobile). These options may look similar, but in each case they use the designated runtime environment. Once you've selected the environment for testing your movie, a checkmark appears next to its name. Then you can use the Ctrl+Enter (⌘-Return) command to test it. Flash compiles the animation and then runs it. If your movie has more than one scene, this command plays all the scenes in order.
Windows: Ctrl+Alt+Enter
Mac: Option-⌘-Return
Compiles and tests the scene in the timeline. If you want to test and view all the scenes in your movie, use Test Movie (above).
Flash sometimes creates ASO (ActionScript Object) files when it compiles your movie; this command deletes those files. (Sometimes, Flash doesn't update these files properly and it creates undesirable results.) If necessary, Flash creates new ASO files if they're needed the next time you compile.
ASO files are temporary files Flash uses when compiling and previewing animations (see above). This command deletes the files, forcing Flash to create new ASO files (if needed), and then tests the movie.
Repeats the playback of your movie or scene when testing. When the movie reaches the end, it starts playing from the beginning again.
Tells Flash to play all the scenes in your animation, not just the currently selected scene.
Windows: Ctrl+Alt+F
Mac: Option-⌘-F
Tells Flash to play the actions you've added to frames in the timeline. (These are basic actions like Play and Stop commands.) If you don't turn on Enable Simple Frame Actions, then Flash ignores frame actions.
Windows: Ctrl+Alt+B
Mac: Option-⌘-B
Makes your buttons work on the stage. If you turn off this menu item, mousing over and clicking buttons has no effect.
Displays components you've added to the stage as they'll appear in the Flash Player. If you turn this item off, then Flash displays components as outlines.