Created a Flash presentation. One of the slides has a nested child slide. This
is great during development because I can line up the child slides movie clips
with the parent slides movie clips (which gives me a good idea of how the child
slide will look). When running the presentation however, both the parent slide
and the nested child slide are displayed at the same time and this isn't the
effect I want. Is there any way that I can keep the nesting during development
but prevent the slides being displayed at the same time?

It depends on what you want to do. If you want the parent slide to show up as a
"background" and then have the child slide come in ontop of it at a later time (sort of
like bullet items in PowerPoint), you can set the overlayChildren property of the parent
to true. You can put a blank slide as the first child slide and then have your real slide
be the second child of the parent. That way at runtime it will first show the parent by
itself then overlay your child slide ontop of it.

If you want the two slides to be truly mutually exclusive, but you still want to be able
to line them up, then you can temporarily at authortime right click on the slide in the
outline and UNcheck the Hide option. This is like the visibility/eyeball for layers and
does not affect runtime behavior...it is authortime only. If you unhide both slides, you
can see how they appear/line up in relation to each other and then Hide them again if you
need to.

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Ed Skwarecki
Principal Architect
eLearning