FLASH: Button instances

[Cheri Harder]

Spent about an hour tracking a silly problem & will relay it to the list in

case somebody else didn't know this....I added [F6] keyframes to create new

instances of my buttons so that I could change the tint back & forth to make

them "flash" different colors before coming to rest....Later in my

development I decided to change the action on one.  Couldn't figure out for

the life of me why the action wouldn't change...looked right...double

checked, did "save as"...cut 'n paste the action in a new movie...all the

good stuff..


Then realized I was changing the action in the final instance of the

button..the last instance down the timeline, as it were.  Seems logical, as

that is the instance that exists when I am pushing the button, no?  No!!!  I

had to change the action in the FIRST instance of the button on that layer.

Hmmmm.  Somebody mentioned this the other day in conjunction with naming the

instances of a Movie Clip - has to be the name on the FIRST instance of the

Movie Clip too, I hear.


Strange, but hope this helps someone else keep their hair.


~~~~Cheri Harder~~~~~

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