SV: FLASH: alpha doesnt work on a symbol

[Glenn Folkvord]

John,


Thanks, your advise seem to do the trick. I'll save it for future reference.


kind regards,

glenn



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>

>Select your image and Break apart and continue to Break Apart the image

>until the Break Apart is grayed out and no longer effective.

>

>There are two reasons for this, one is to reduce the size of the image

>by flattening overlapping areas in the various groups that other formats

>put together, the size reduction can be from none to very large. Second,

>and this is what is probably interferring with the the Alpha not taking

>effect is to remove dozens of nested groups that will make it difficult

>for Flash to draw an image because it has to analyze all those

>components.

>

>The only warning here is if you are going to animate portions of an

>imported image while you are ungrouping you may want to remove those

>components to a separate layer and perform the break apart separately on

>those elements.

>

>Only after you have removed the grouping should you make the object a

>symbol.

>

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John Croteau croteauerols [dot] com (mailto:croteauerols [dot] com)

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