Commenting in Flash

We can put comments in our flash movies that are not compiled into the movie. They do not increase movie sized, however give important information about the movie to someone examining the fla. We use comments for several reasons/

1. We can use comments to denote frames in the timeline not used in scripts. Often we will label frames for scripting to point to and to navigate to frames in a movie. In the frame label box of the property inspector we can simply put a // in front of the frame name, and the name on the timeline will be a comment, denoted by a green //.
   
   
    
2. When you script, it is important to leave comments as to what you are doing so others will be able to understand what the script is doing. This will help even you if you are the only one to ever view the script since one often forgets what we did in a movie when we open it a year later.
   Single line action script comment tags are preceeded with a // and will show up in the action script panel as grey. This comments do not export with the movie so do not increase the size of your movie. They are there for editing helps.
   
   
    
3. The third type of commenting you can do in your flash fla movie is a multiline comment on the action script panel. This type of comment may have copyright information, or instructions on how to use and adjust the scripts. The multiline comments starts with a /* and ends with a */. It would appear like this:
   /* your comments are here and can be as many lines as you want */