Flash Site Design - Newbie Swap Symbol Question

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Newbie Swap Symbol Question

ccll20022000@yahoo.com

2004-04-12, 4:42 am

I made a movie clip with several layers which I want to make dupes of
with different symbols (based on text)

I simply want to dupe the button and then for each layer swap out the
symbol.

I can't seem to find an easy way to do this for the entire layer's
keyframes and instead have to select each keyframe and then swap
symbol. If I do multi-frame and select, the Swap Symbol button is
de-activated. Any thoughts appreciated.

ccll20022000

fernandesfran

2004-04-12, 4:42 am

Hi,
if i'm getting you right, you just want to change a particular aspect of a
movieClip, and don't want to copy and paste the contents in a new movieClip
again and again, right?

You can duplicate the movieClip in the library. Go to library (Ctrl +L or
Window-->Library), right-click on your MovieClip and choose 'duplicate'. Rename
the new-duplicated MC to whatever name you want.

Does that answer your question?

Cheers,
FF

ccll20022000@yahoo.com

2004-04-12, 4:42 am

Hi, thanks, but I am one step past that. I duplicated the movie-clip
and now want to change the symbols used by the duped clip but keep the
anim, right now I have to selecte each keyframe in each layer and
swap, I want to just select an entire layer and swap the symbol (gets
kind of old swapping out 10-20 keyframes for 10-20 layers)

Thanks

> Hi,
> if i'm getting you right, you just want to change a particular aspect of a
> movieClip, and don't want to copy and paste the contents in a new movieClip
> again and again, right?
>
> You can duplicate the movieClip in the library. Go to library (Ctrl +L or
> Window-->Library), right-click on your MovieClip and choose 'duplicate'. Rename
> the new-duplicated MC to whatever name you want.
>
> Does that answer your question?
>
>
> Cheers,
> FF

anishu

2004-04-21, 3:14 pm

i think u have to swap the symbol individually.. there is no option to swap all the symbols together.