Re: FLASH: Buttons with text

[Brian]

> > > No, you don't have to break apart the text. After you

> > > duplicated the button and changed the text in the

> > > duplicate, did you change the text in all of the

> > > states for each duplicate?

> >

> >Yes, I did - I had a whole sequence of things I was doing one particular

way

> >to make sure I got them all done.

> >Then I'd move on to the next one, then the next, until I reached the

point

> >where I went back through them all, and the text in all the states had

> >reverted back to what I had in the original button. Some duplicates

changed

> >right away, but others took me two or three times to crack at them until

> >they stayed the way I wanted them.

> >I got the impression that I needed to deselect things before I saved the

> >file again or something... I really don't know.

> >Any ideas?

>

>

> My guess is that after duplicating the symbol in the Instance

> Properties>Definition window, you highlighted the newly created symbol but

> didn't actually change the instance's definition. It's a little tricky --

> you have to double-click on the name, and you'll see the little bullet to

> the left actually jump to the new symbol from the original.



Uhh, no... I right-clicked on the button I wished to duplicate in the

Library window, selected Duplicate, renamed it and right-clicked the

duplicate and selected Edit to make the changes. Isn't this the/a correct

procedure? I'm still unfamiliar enough with Flash to have almost no idea of

what you are referring to here... little bullet?


-Brian Matthews

http://www.angelfire.com/fl/sapringer




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