Re: FLASH: UnGroup vs. Break Apart ???

[Brandon Wolf]

Something I noticed about UnGroup vs. Break Apart:

When a graphic is broken apart and you drop another graphic on top of

it...the top object "cuts out" the broken apart graphic below it. When you

group it, it retains it's shape.


Brandon

FlashZone

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Date: Friday, October 30, 1998 12:54 PM

Subject: Re: FLASH: UnGroup vs. Break Apart ???



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>Bernardo Antunes wrote:

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>> (Dont look to my realy bad english, if you want to correct me, go for

>> it)

>>

>> Hi,

>>

>> I believe that these are two complete diferent things.

>>

>> Group:

>>         It groups two (or more) objects so that you can move, modify,

>> all at the same time, so when you UnGroup them, they will return to

>> their initial state (The tranformations that you have done mantains, but

>> they still are what they are, a symbol is still a symbol and so on).

>>

>

>Hiya Bernardo,

>

>Persoanlly, the only thing Ive found "group" good for, is proper alignment.

>YOu can goup symbols to align them easier. THis is about the only thing Ive

>found it good for. But thats also a very handy feature. Group doesnt really

>matter in anything else since all graphics should be created as symbols

>anyway. One a symbol, it is "grouped".

>

>

>> Break Apart:

>>         It realy break the object apart, supose that you have a Object

>> Like a Graphic, you cannot realy edit it, but just apply some effects to

>> it, when you break apart, you will tranform the object in the lines and

>> other things, like when you created it before made it a symbol, for

>> instance, if you have text, and make ungroup I think it wont ungroup

>> athing, but if you break apart, you can make what ever you want to thak

>> drawing.

>>

>

>Break apart is usually only used for imported images such as bmps or jpgs.

>THis allows you to edit them. Symbols also can be broken apart for certain

>effects. The original symbol is still intact, however, in the library. The

>only way to really edit anything is from the symbol's point variable in the

>library. THis means the "bare bottom" symbol.

>IOWs, if I were to use a symbol(Frowny face) again and again, even in other

>symbol's timelines at different scales, rotations, whatever. If I edited

the

>frowny face's symbol

>to a smiley face. In every other instance I used it(in any other symbol or

>timeline) they

>would all have turned into a smiley faces.

>

>=8>)-

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>-DG-

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