Enhanced Flash Layer Colors

In my day to day activities, I used Flash quite often and I have some ideas about what I would like to see change with the application so I figured I would post some of my ideas here in addition to letting the dev team over at Adobe know as well.

The first is Enhanced Layer Colors.  Depending on the project, I can have a ton of layers.  Even though I have ability to use folders, that only takes care of my vertical space management.  But what about quickly being able to track a layer a sea of layers?  Or how about when I try to find a layer in a sea of layers when I have outlines enabled? Even then, the  Outline Color indicator itself turns into an outline.

This is where Enhanced Layer Colors come into handy.  The idea is simple. Color the entire layer with a lighter shade of the Outline Color indicator. This feature could be managed through the layer preferences menu Just as the Outline color is currently. This would aid in easier tracking of layers at a glance.

The image below shows what the layers look like in their current state and what they could like with Enhanced Layer Colors enabled.


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