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Help With Graphic Symbol....
i have a flash movie with a graphic symbol which
is some falling text which is supposed to play once
and then stop but all i can get it to do is loop. i've tried several
approaches. i've tried putting a stop action at the end of the
graphic symbol but that didn't work. i tried putting the stop
action in the main movie but that just stops everything. i tried
converting it to a movie clip but that doesn't even play at all.
what i want is the text to play once and then rest of the movie to
continue. this cannot possibly so complicated and it's driving
me nuts.

i've attached the file and the falling text is located in the library
and is called "quote" . the movie clip is also in the library called
"quote text." any solution will be greatly appreciated!

lhombre@hotmail.com

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How Do I Put A Symbol Behind Graphic
hello im making a scene in a cartoon im making where claws come out of a cats paw like switchblades. im doing this with motion tweens and i was wondering how to make the symbol go behind the paw and arm drawing. (i want the claw to be some what exposed then gradually reveal itself while tweening) So in ending i want the symbol to be behind the main drawing but still be active. Do i need to put the claws on a different layer?

Thanks,
Enigma-X

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Can U Use The Same Graphic Symbol?
Ok. I finally understand how to make an advanced rollover effect using a combination of AC, Buttons and movie clips. And successfull. However I now have another problem. I am using an arrow that fades in and out on rollover and rollout. It works fine. Except I want to use the same graphic. But I find that when I hover over the first button, the second arrow also becomes visible. It is obviously possible to have the same graphic used right? So what am I doing wrong. each movie has its own instance, i.e effect1, effect2, and the buttons have their own instance to, i.e button1, button2. And the action script refers to each of the buttons and effects correctly, and yet I still encounter the problem

Does this mean I need seperate arrows????

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Which is more efficient? I'm doing a screen saver and the background is one big graphic... (a gradient) and I was wondering which is more efficient a symbol or a graphic?

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Start Of Graphic Symbol
I am in edit mode and want my symbol to begin at 20 and end at frame 50. There is a keyframe in frame one...I have tried to clear it so that my symbol starts at 20. What am I doing wrong?

I am so new at this and I do appreciate any help and information.

Frieda :-)

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Can I Add Actions To A Graphic Symbol
I have a .PNG file which i want to apply an action to.
This action is a simple on release , go to and play but i would rather not make the bitmap into a button, Ive converted it into a symbol who's behavior is a graphic but my actions palette is greyed out.

So the question is can I attach object Actions to a symbol which is not a movie or a button.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
El

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Breaking Apart Graphic Symbol
I AM SORRY MY ENGLISH IS PATHTIC
HOPE U MAKE SENSE OF IT!
THE PROBLEM IS WHEN I BREAK APART GRAPHIC SYMBOL BY MAKING A NEW KEY FRAME ON THE SAME LAYER
THE SYMBOL BREAKS VERY STRANGELY FORINSTANCES
I MADE A MAN WALKING IN GRAPHICS SYSMBOL WITH TWEENED LEG MOVEMENTS
THE SYMBOL WORKS FINE BUT WHEN I BREAK IT APART TO CHANGE THE PERSON'S ACTION IT BREAKS APART VERY STANGELY THE LEGS GROW IN SIZE AND MULTIPLE LEGS STARTS APPEARING INFINITLY ITS LIKE NEVER ENDING !
CAN ANYONE OF U EXPLAIN ME Y
I HAD NEVER EXPERIENCED THIS KINDA PROBLEM WHEN I USED FLASH 4
PLZ HELP ME!

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I wonder if someone can shed some light on why when I stretch a graphic symbol of a box vertically, that the thin bounding box around that symbol also expands both vertically and horizontally at the same time? If I stretch that same box horizontally, the line remains the same width..but vertically, it expands in all directions. Is there a way to prevent this from happening, some setting that I am simply overlooking?

thanks for your time and help,
-Bill

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I'm still using Flash 5. I broke apart a piece of text. coverted each letter to a graphic symbol and have made a motion tween on seperate layers. I need to know how to ease a graphic symbol. I know it can be done, but I have forgot how to do it. thanks for your help in advance.

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CHECK BOX On A Graphic Symbol
Can some one help me providing the whole fla for a image which have checkbox and when user click that checkbox then an email will send to a specific email that xyz@xxyzz.com has accepted the conditions.

Thankx i will be a great help.

Ammar

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Graphic Symbol Woes
Okay, this is the strangest problem I've ever encountered. I've got a graphics symbol in my fla that is trying to take over the world! For the sake of simplicity, we'll say that this graphic symbol is a TREE. (It's really just some text, but we'll call it a TREE.) In my timeline, there's one graphic that animates in for the first page of the site, a second graphic that animates in for page two, and the TREE animates in for page 3.

The problem is that no matter what graphic symbols I put on the stage AFTER page 3, they all turn into the TREE symbol once they're on the stage!! For instance, let's say I have a BALL symbol. I look at the BALL in the timeline, and the little preview looks like a ball . . . GOOD! But when I try to drag it onto the stage instead of the TREE, it actually shows up as TREE! And when I click on it, the properties panel says that it's an instance of the TREE graphic!

PLEASE HELP! What could the problem be?

(In case you need more explanation, here's more: If the TREE symbol is already on the stage and I drag the BALL onto the stage in the same frame, both the TREE and the BALL appear on the stage. However, if I then delete the TREE symbol, then the BALL symbol suddenly turns into the TREE! I'm confounded--like the bridge in the Led Zeppelin song.)

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Masking With Graphic Symbol
Hi,

I was trying some stuff with masking. I have a shape on one layer. And there is another layer which acts as mask for first one.

In the mask layer, I keep adding a graphic symbol to be able to reveal first layer's portions.

This is not working.

I am attaching my fla for your reference.

Please let me know what am I doing wrong.

Interestingly, if I use just shapes instead of graphic-symbol in the mask layer, it is working fine. Why is so?

Please also let me know if there is a better way of achieving what I am seeking.

Thanks,
Mukesh

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Fade Out A Graphic Symbol
I trying to fade out a graphic symbol using AS. I think I have it working but it happens to fast and I am looking for away to slow the transition.

ActionScript Code:
for (var i = 0; i<100; ++i) {
//trace(i)
if (this._alpha<=0) {
this._alpha = 0;
} else {
this._alpha -= i;
trace(this._alpha);
}
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Reusing Graphic Symbol
Ok, basically what I've done is built an animated character separating it into its basic parts (left foot, leg, torso, head, eyes, etc) and I imported it into flash ( CS3 ) from photoshop and turned it into (what I believe to be called) a nested symbol. I've converted each part into a graphic symbol and then grouped them up (like the eyes and the mouth with the head, etc) so that each one can be a graphic symbol and not stray away from its parent symbol.

I've successfully made an animation using this setup and it works quite nicely, however I have a problem:

In the main timeline, anytime I use this character setup, it plays the parent symbol strictly from the beginning of its timeline. Since I don't want a single shot of the character for the whole animation, how do I set the main timeline (when using the parent symbol for all it's child symbols) to play a second set of animations using the same parent/children (so i don't have to keep rebuilding this character)?

Basically I'm saying as an example: I have parent symbol cat, with parts catbody and cathead (both symbols), cathead has parts cateyes and catmouth (also both symbols).

I put CAT into the main timeline for set number of frames
I animate the head, then the eyes and mouth using their respected timelines.
Then I have some animation or whatever in the main timeline that's unrelated and the cat is no longer visible

Then I want to use symbol CAT again afterwards, but I don't want it to use the start of the timeline for its parts from the last time I used CAT and want it to either start fresh with no timeline for its parts or skip to a frame on all the parts where I designated the next animation to be (without having to construct a new CAT with new parts so that the timelines would be empty).

Is there some actionscript that can help me out here or something else I'm not aware of? Basically all the tutorials i can find are very verbose in explaining what I've already done, but not about using the same setup again and again and having it do different things. (I'm basically making a looong feature and the main character is going to be used throughout most of it but I can't rely on the same movieclips for the whole animation obviously)

Thanks in advance!~

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is it meant to be a stationery item, as in , it is not animated or anything.. and will remain as it is?

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Is there anyway to control the visibility of a graphic (symbol) without converting it to a movieclip? I need the the symbol to function as a graphic rather than a mc but I need to control the visibility of it.

Thanks for the help.

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Movieclip Vs. Graphic Symbol
I have been using Flash for a few years in an educational environment. When instructing students to make motion tweens I always tell them to convert the object to a symbol and choose a graphic symbol. I only have them use Movieclip symbols when they need nested animations or need to reference the symbol with actionscript.

My question is, why use the graphic symbol at all? why not make every symbol except buttons movieclip symbols?

Is there something about the graphic ymbol that keeps the file size low or someother limitation with the number of possible movieclip symbols?

Besides differentiating symbols in the library from still symbols to nested animations what is the purpose of the graphic symbol?

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If You Create A Symbol As Graphic,
is it meant to be a stationery item, as in , it is not animated or anything.. and will remain as it is?

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Graphic Symbol - Play Once?
Afternoon all on this fine day! (well it where I am anyway!)

What's this setting for?.....and why would you use a graphic symbol with animated frames in instead of a MC?!

Ta!

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I downloaded a flash file from this site. The file is a horizontal image slider. I am trying to edit a graphic symbol (which contains all the images). The symbol is 2000 px wide. The stage is only 650 px wide. The graphic is comprised of a series of 7 images. I would like to delete the last 2 images. However, due to the small size of the stage, I cannot access the last 3 images. I have tried to enlarge the size of my stage to access more of the graphic, but no luck. I have also tried using the hand tool to slide over. I have to be doing something wrong here. I'd really appreciate some advice. Thank you!

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Create Graphic Symbol At Runtime?
Is there a way in ActionScript to create graphic symbols at runtime?

If so, I'd like to perform a "linkage"/export (to ActionScript) thereafter so that I may "attachMovie" the symbol to an "emptyMovieClip" for simple animation on it.

If this is an absurd question, please forgive as I am new to Flash and this forum. Am using Flash Professional 8.

Thanks in advance!

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I am using flash 8 to create an animation nav feature on my homepage consisting of four buttons and an alphabet ("abcdefg....") of text above them. I would like to animate the text so that when a button is mouseovered, some of the letters change color, and when the button is clicked, the other letters fade to 0 alpha and the color-changed ones move around the screen.

I have the mouseover feature working, but I can't seem to create a tween to 0 alpha for the fading letters...and for the moving letters i am not sure what to do...what is the best way to do this? should I make all letters graphic symbols and then refer to them with actionscript to make different ones fade or move for each button? or should they be movie clips? i'm an actionscript beginner so if actionscript is the answer could you please direct me toward a particular topic or category of actionscript to research? Thanks!!

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Graphic Symbol Visible = False?
Can you make a graphic symbol visible = false? I have created a button and the design will be the same for all my buttons. I then use that same symbol for all my buttons then I make graphic symbols and put it over the other button symbol. However, I don't to make these buttons go away and appear at different points. I can get the button to disappear because it has an instance name but can you do the same with a graphic? Any suggestions?

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Getting The Reference Of The Graphic Symbol In The .as File
Hi Friends,
I have created a graphic symbol in the flash document file.
I want to set the properties of this graphic symbol like _x, _y, _width etc. using the actionscript file.

Can anybody help me?

Thanks and Regards,
Bharat

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Setting Frames For A Graphic Symbol
I'm working on an animation, and I'm using a graphic symbol with 5 frames of slightly different poses.

Whenever I try to change frames on the main timeline, Flash will not allow a change. For instance, if I try to change a single frame from 3 to 1, Flash forces it to remain at 1.

What am I doing wrong?

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Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone knows any flash graphic symbol libraries on the net you can download? I think there should be a big web site of useful graphic symbols you can get and use...

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Change Color Of Graphic Symbol
Hi!

I just wanna ask if I can change color of graphic symbol or i have to convert symbol to MC?

example:
I make a rectangle, now i wanna with some color picker or buttom change a color of rectangle.

Second problem:
i have two rectangles and i change bg. color of one rectangle, and when i changed the color of background of that rectangle tweening stop.

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Hello,

I have a slight problem, and either i can't remember the exact way to do it or i never knew it at all lol.

Basically I have several graphic symbols that i'm placing onto the stage. Using guidelines I'm resizing and repositioning the symbols on the stage using the guidelines.

The problem I'm having is when I'm resizing the symbols by using the transform tool and dragging one side, the other side moves as well.

Is there a way to resize the image in a way where only one side moves instead of both sides?(Ie: When i grab the right side of the symbol to resize it, then the left side of the symbols moves on its own.... its there a way to resize images by moving one side at a time?)

Thank you in advance.

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With flash MX2004 we could
add a graphic symbol icon to the Button component instance.

I am quoting from a tutorial from macromedia.com

Flash lets you add icons to a few of the components, including List and Button, as a nice bit of extra eye candy. Select the button instance on the Stage. In the Property inspector, type search_gr in the icon row. Now you have a small visual icon beside the text on the button face. The starter file includes a few extra assets, such as icons, that you can use to build the Tip of the Day application.

http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/fla...day_print.html

But when I tried it using Flash 8, no Icons appeared on my flash movie!

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Thanks,
FletchSOD

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Hey guys, ran a search on google and found these forums. I need a little help with flash. I'm relatively new to using it and i cannot figure out what the problem is.

I imported a graphic (gif) to my flash document, and everything looks perfect. I can view the flash movie, no distortion. However, as soon as i convert the graphic to a symbol, it is distorted when playing or testing the movie. Is this a glitch in the program or am i doing something wrong? Wrong file type or something?

I am using MX professional 2004.

This is what it should look like: img102.imageshack.us/img102/5430/undistortedhy3.gif
This is when it gets distorted: img261.imageshack.us/img261/5117/distortedfd6.gif

Thank you.

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I've a movie clip called 'snowballthrow' which is basically 6 frames of a snowball getting smaller. I'd like the snowball to start in the centre of the bottom half of the movie with frame 6 of the movie ending up on where the user has clicked. I thought about having the movie symbol on a motion tween but how do I go about specifying where the movieclip ends on the stage.

I'm using Flash 5 and the movie is 500 x 350 px

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That's a very weird problem I'm encountering.

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The help files are no help at all. There is nothing covering troubleshooting.

What's going on and, more importantly, how do I fix this problem?

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Hello,
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I tried changing to a moving clip, layering all symbols on each other and have the user (via radio button) change the _visible property, but i couldnt get that to work either.

Everytime my sybol enteres a new keyframe it defaults.

using flash professional 8.

Please help!!!!!!!!!!!! Any Ideas

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on (release) {
gotoAndPlay("contact", "contact_start");
}

...where "contact" is the name of a different scene and "contact_start" is a labeled frame at the start of that scene. I've tried making the Buttons Track as Button and Track as Menu Item: neither works.

I'm sure this is very simple, but it's driving me crazy. BTW:This is Flash MX.

THANX!

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What I want to know is if there is any way to simply replaces the jpg's the graphic symols are associated with and play the same movie clip over and over again with the different jpg's.

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I would like to see if anyone else is having this undesireable effect.
I've done this in several movies and am finding this problem.

I've created a movie and created a graphic symbol in the main timeline and stage that contains several (20 to 100+) PNG files with transparency - these are animated frames created from another program like 3D Max. Importing the images went fine. The problem is that when I want to add a keyframe in the main timeline for that symbol (like having it go through the frames (play once) until it hits a particular frame and I want it to hold on that frame for while (single frame) and then have it go from there later on (play once). When I try to add a keyframe, the program hangs for a while - I believe it's thinking, but it sure takes a while - it's almost as if it's going through all of the frames of the graphic symbol and importing them again or something. I'm pretty sure that Flash 8 didn't do that.

I'm running on Windows XP with 2Gig ram.

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Edited: 09/16/2008 at 05:11:55 PM by Vyse7

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Hello Forum,

I apologize for asking this question. I have taken a bmp image, added it to my library (Flash CS3, AS3)
and converted it to a graphic (not a movie clip or a symbol).

Is there a way I can add this graphic to the stage using ActionScript? or, if i place the "graphic" on the stage to begin with, can I set its alpha to 0 (zero)?

And later tween it up to 1.0?

My intention here is to have something without the overhead of a movie clip.
I supposed i could make it a sprite - which is really a movie clip.

I saw a post in this forum that might have answered my question but this link (provided by the post)
does not take me anywhere - I did not find the answer in any case:
http://www.flashgods.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=117

Thanks Again,

eholz1

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I used to use Director, and in this application you could write a global script that could be attached to multiple sprites so you didn't need to replicate it over and over. I can't figure this out in Flash but I know it will always do the same thing - go the frame + 1.

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Hey all, here is a frustrating problem that I have.
PLEASE HELP!$%^&

I have multiple symbols on one layer .
I am trying to shade a characters face.
On the one layer I create the face shape and when I attempt to create a shadow on it, by breaking apart the graphic to reshape it properly.

I just disappears or actually falls behind.
Now I can put it on a separate layer but then I want to animate the face with its shadow!

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i use mostly mc's, but on the 'top layer' (with mc's loaded internally in the graphic symbols) have chosen to use graphic symbols instead. Is there a way to get them to default to play once, rather than loop forever when placed on timeline? Just an annoyance really, but figured i'd ask..

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FLASH MX

1) ACTION SCRIPT INSTANCE SWAPS
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2) BROKEN TWEENS
I wonder if this will be appropriate anyway as I have trouble changing it by hand as it breaks the TWEEN I have between 2 keyframes using the same symbol, a small version going to a big version.

3) NUMERIC RESIZES
Nightmare anyways as my version of Flash won't allow me to change an instance size to 3000 pixels, I get an INVALID SIZE AND POSITION error but I can use the SCALE TOOL to get there with a lot of faffing about.

This is all driving me spare, any suggestions. )c8

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My current code looks like this:

Code:
_root.loadVariables("value.txt");
onEnterFrame = function() {
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}
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