On my work PC, when I test a movie in Flash MX 2004 Pro, the toolbar goes away, and the property inspector goes away. All my panels, which are docked on the right side of the screen stay there. I can hit F4 to make them go away though. When I close the swf preview, everything comes back (usually).
But at home, when I test a movie – same layout – everything disappears. The only thing visible in the IDE are any open documents and the swf preview I am testing. I like that. But I can’t for the life of me figure out how to get my work pc to do the same thing.
I know, I can just hit F4. It’s one little keystroke. Just humor this poor geek, and if you happen to know the secret, let me know.
If you have the project panel open on the right it seems to leave those displayed, otherwise they go away. That’s my experience anyhow. Hope it helps.
i’ve had the same issue after i installed the Central SDK and used the Central Development Panel. previous to Central i could get it all to go away on test if i _didn’t_ have the Project Panel open. but now, even with Project Panel and Central Panel closed, Flash maintains two entirely different panel sets on my machines – one when developing, one when testing.
i logged this during Central/7.0.2 betas, and IIRC they were deferred.
you’re not alone, but i have no answer for you. 🙂
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I had the same once, it had to do with the Project pane remaining in view. Without that pane it works as intended (well as preferred really)
Not sure that’s a fix for you though :).
The Flash IDE interface is a mystery to me anyway! Panels often go somewhere where you don’t want them. And it’s so sloooow! It takes 5 seconds here to open the publish settings dialog (I’ve stopped the time)! I try to prevent the IDE where I can!
hmm… well I don’t have Central installed and I don’t use the projects panel. Oh well. Another one of life’s great mysteries.
There are some panels that cause this. As has been pointed out the Project panel will do that, but there are others. Definitely any custom panel will do this. Custom panels will remain even if they are undocked.
To find out which panel is causing this undock one panel at a time and see when the right pane disappears. Silly maybe, but at least you’ll know.