Re: FLASH: MC within button help

[Marc Hoffman]

At 11:28 AM 2/28/99 +0000, you wrote:

>http://goultralightsgo.com/naoki/project/

>


per John C's advice, please ZIP it first and let me know and I'll look at it.



>Also in regards to defining the behaviour of a symbol on the main timeline,

>Is it okay to say create a MC, and redefine it as a graphic or symbol,

>Or should

>the behaviour definition of the symbol be the same as what it is in the 

>library?

>Meaning, if I have a symbol that is created as a MC, do I always have to

define

>it's behaviour on the main timeline as a MC? 

>


There's no need to redefine the symbol, usually.  Having it as a MC lets

you re-define the behavior instance-by-instance; it can then be either a MC

or a graphic, and you can select to make it loop or not and also it can

display just a single frame (of your choice). Button instances, by the way,

can also have their behavior changed to a single graphic frame, so the

button actions are disabled for that instance (sometimes you want the

button to appear before it does anything; this is one way to achieve that).



Marc Hoffman

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