Re: FLASH: simple Flash 5 making me nuts!

[John Dowdell]

At 5:13 PM 10/19/0,

Keenwittedaol [dot] com

 wrote:

> neither I nor my colleagues can't make a simple color tween...

> I select the symbol in Frame 5 - go to modify instance and then

> get my fill palette opened and try to fill the symbol.


Hmm. A symbol is a single element, used in many places. If you do change

the color of a symbol, it will change in each instance, used anywhere in

your movie. (Or other movies, if it's a share library element!)


The procedure here is just the same as in previous versions... to animate a

color tween on a symbol, first set up a regular tween, and then give

different tinting values at different keyframes.


This doesn't change the color of the object, but it changes the color

applied to an instance of that object. Sounds like sophistry, true, but is

actually a key concept: a media description occurs once, and then we can

animate the effects applied to this symbol.


More info's in the chapter about "Using Symbols and Instances", in the

section "Changing instance properties".


jd








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