The level of sophistication of some actions, especially in combination with one another, can create complexity as well. Continually test your movie clips and keep some of the following tips in mind to help you with any unexpected results:
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Trace displays information in an output window. You can use trace to have programming notes or specific results appear when a button is pushed, or a frame is played while testing a movie or scene. You can write expressions in the trace statement parameters to check if a condition exists or not, and have the trace window display values while testing a movie. |
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If a variable is attached to a frame that has not been loaded, then the value of that variable is null. |
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While testing a movie or scene, use the commands Control > List Objects and Control > List Variables. |
For ease in reading actions that have long lines or contain many lines, use the Object inspector or Frame inspector to display the action's entire text.