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Subject:	Re: FLASH: Hillman Curtis book
From:	Kenny Sherwood
Date:	Mon, 14 Aug 2000 09:47:28 +0100

At 16.18 +1000 2000.08.13, Richard wrote:

>Chapter 3, page 3:04, after creating a background layer we are instructed:
>
>"With the background element sized and positioned and still selected,
create
>a new symbol by choosing Insert>New Symbol..."
>
>Did I miss something but I thought to create a symbol out of an existing
>object one would use "Convert to symbol" not "New symbol".
>
>If you follow Curtis' instruction you simply end up in symbol edit mode.
>
>Surely this couldn't be a mistake in the book?
>
>He does it again after creating a rectangle for use as a mask: page 3:06
>
>The rectangle is drawn on the stage (not in symbol edit mode) and again we
>are instructed to create a symbol out of it by "New symbol".
>
>I'm confused.

Consider the possibility that HC is *wrong*, and that you are *right*.

Fluff ego-gratifyin' (try countin' how many pix of HC!) piece o'
doodoo, that book, IMO.

Kenny Sherwood, always happy to dump on that particular man and book
... a waste o' my money and time ... "ActionScript" gets redefined
(see index), per His Holiness, into "Object-Oriented Programming"?
Gimme a break Hilly! Sheesh, ya even out-do Roger Black, ego-wise! :-)

&:

"The spherically emanated direction of that reach is *your* job."
-- Anonymous, 2000.08.05

It's All Good and It's All in *Fun*.
No Hurries No Worries.
Nobody gets me yet I care not.

http://kensherwood.com/zenkat.html

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