View Second Frame Of Movie Clip At Design Time
Hi I have movieclip that contains my navigation, this has its own preloader on the first frame. When desiging this preloader is all I can see as the actual nav is on the 2nd frame. Is there a way I can view the nav whilst designing the rest of the site as it is otherwise hard to picture where I want to put everything. Basically I want to select the 2nd frame of a movie clip and then for that clip to stay on the 2nd frame when I move back to the top timeline and into other movieclips.
Hmm that was harder to explain than i'd imagined! If that makes sense to anyone, help really appreciated.
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Posted on: 12-21-2003, 01:24 AM
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Cheers!
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