symbol button bug (?)

[Colin Moock]

I ran into a fairly annoying problem with symbol behaviour today. I'm

wondering if anyone has a work-around for it.


1) Make a symbol (just a single frame), and don't check "Button

Behaviour".

2) Drop a copy of the symbol onto your timeline.

3) Now suppose you change your mind...you decide you want the symbol to

be a button.

4) On the Library list, choose the symbol and then edit properties.

5) Check off "Button Behaviour".

6) Add the appropriate button frames to your symbol.


Here is the behaviour:

1) When you return to your movie, the copy of the symbol which you put

in your movie in step 2 above won't work as a button. It still thinks

it's a non-button symbol.

2) New copies of the symbol in the movie behave properly as buttons.

3) Old copies of the symbol now play through as though the button

frames were a four frame animation. To prevent this, you have to choose

"First Frame" as the play mode.


In the Levi's Canada site, we recently decided to make one of the

symbols a linked button. The symbol in question is in about 40 places

in the movie. I now have to reintegrate the symbol in each place, just

to get the button functionality. I have to redo all the tweens etc etc.

Yuck.  I hoped this would take an hour, but it looks like it will now

take a couple of days.


Anyone else hit this problem before? Any workarounds?


Colin


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