Re: FLASH: symbol instances problem

[Ray Weisling]

---( level-1 text from Cheri Harder. T = 13.06.00|10:09 -0700  )---


>No.  In your "solution" you are un-doing the "symbol" by breaking it apart,

>so it is no longer an instance of that symbol, but a separate graphic

>entirely.  The only things you can change in an "instance" of a symbol are

>those things listed in the "instance properties" window (brightness, tint,

>and alpha)

>

>HTH


Sure helps a lot, thanks. That is what I concluded. The client's 

graphics designer, however, told me in e-mail to drag the symbol off 

the library and then copy and paste it as needed, then change the 

text in each one, but every time I did it they all changed.


Then I spotted that his were shown as groups in the object inspector 

and the "real" instances were graphics.


But I needed to know if there was possibly something I was missing, 

since instances can have different colours, rotations, scales, skew 

-- who knows, maybe the text is also saved in each instance. Seems 

like a legitimate  possibility to someone like me learning the limits 

of how it is internally stored, in a way, from the outside. (Well, I 

tend to look at all programs from the standpoint of how the internal 

database is formed, since I have done some degree of programming over 

the past 35 years.)


Thanks!


Ray


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>~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

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>----- Original Message -----

>

From: "Ray Weisling" <zetalinkpostone [dot] com>

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To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

>Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 9:51 AM

>Subject: Re: FLASH: symbol instances problem

>

>

> > OK, no takers...

> >

> > This is a different approach to the same question:

> >

> > Can text placed in graphic symbols in the library be changed to be

> > different in each instance?

> >

> > In other words (example) can you make a symbol be a square with "A"

>inside: [A]

> >

> > And then in each instance change the "A" to be B, C, D, E, F etc., to

> > make a series of keys that match some text elsewhere?

>

>

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