Re: FLASH: Editing artwork

[Brian]

> >Whenever I 'Edit In Place' a symbol, more often than not it seems like as

if

> >I cannot get the paintbrush or the eraser to work. I'll draw and draw,

and

> >it doesn't keep. I'll try to erase, and nothing disappears. I've even

tried

> >all the different settings on the tools, to no avail... different

> >magnifications, too.

>

> Two possibilities?

> 1. Is everything you are trying to edit on the same layer? Use eye symbol

> to check by hiding individual layers. For example you will not be able to

> paint or fill a series of lines which you have (accidentally) put on

> different layers.

>

> 2. Have you "Grouped" the symbol elements?

> Try "Ungroup"


Neither one of these is the issue.


Something else I discovered: This _seems_ to be happening on symbols that I

have flipped horizontally on the stage. This has worked for me before, but

not now, and I've even already had this problem on Flash 5... so what gives?


-Brian Matthews



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