Re: FLASH: Re: FLASH making symbols

[Byron Canfield]

If you are copying the elements from the symbol editing area and pasting

them onto the main stage, you are, indeed, working just with graphics, not

with symbols. To properly deploy the symbols so that you can modify the

instance, close the symbol editing window, open the library (if not already

open -- Ctrl+L), find the symbol name in the list, and drag the symbol from

the Library thumnail window to the stage.


At 10:52 AM 1/23/99 -0700, you wrote:

>Ok, there has GOT to be an easy answer to this question.  When I am working

>on the stage and I need to make a symbol I simply select the elements I

>want... group them up and either hit F8 or click Insert and then make

>symbol.  This creates perfectly working symbols every time.  HOWEVER.... If

>I select nothing.... click insert... then make symbol and then produce my

>symbol from scratch in the symbol editing window my symbols never work.

>When I copy and paste them back into the movie they act like graphics, not

>symbols because I can't ever modify instance on them.  I'm sure what I'm

>doing wrong is fairly simple but I can't find the answer in any of the

>literature or help!  What gives?

>

>Sincerely,

>

>Al Rosetti

>http://www.websitepartners.com


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Byron Canfield, Canfield Studios (http://www.byronc.com)

President, Seattle Coreldraw Artists Network (http://www.corelsea.org)


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