[Flashcoders] Flash 8, AS 2.0. I want to use symbols from child movie in parent movie. Possible?
Wow, how I could I miss this feature?.. It seemed useless for me at first. Now I see its power. Thanks so much, Deepanjan Das, that is just exactly what I was looking for! You can use runtime shared libraries for this case I guess. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
[Flashcoders] Flash 8, AS 2.0. I want to use symbols from child movie in parent movie. Possible?
Hey! Suppose I load an SWF that contains symbols inside the main movie. Let it be smiles for chat application - smiles.swf. Then I want to instantiate some of these symbols putting them on the main movie _root. That is essential, I want to add the instances to the main movie _root or _root's descendants. Is it possible with Flash 8? I have made some experiments and have come to conlusion that Flash allows to create symbol instances only inside the movie that the symbol is coming from. Am I right? Well, I know one workaround - to paint a symbol to a bitmap and add this bitmap to the main movie. However in my application I deal with interactive symbols not the smile bitmaps, so this approach doesn't work for me. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8, AS 2.0. I want to use symbols from child movie in parent movie. Possible?
Hi, you've answered your own question I'm afraid. There is one other option, paint bitmaps to a symbol :). So all the assets for an interactive smiley are stored as bitmaps and you create a movieclip from that. greetz JC On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Donald Trump [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey! Suppose I load an SWF that contains symbols inside the main movie. Let it be smiles for chat application - smiles.swf. Then I want to instantiate some of these symbols putting them on the main movie _root. That is essential, I want to add the instances to the main movie _root or _root's descendants. Is it possible with Flash 8? I have made some experiments and have come to conlusion that Flash allows to create symbol instances only inside the movie that the symbol is coming from. Am I right? Well, I know one workaround - to paint a symbol to a bitmap and add this bitmap to the main movie. However in my application I deal with interactive symbols not the smile bitmaps, so this approach doesn't work for me. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
Re: [Flashcoders] Flash 8, AS 2.0. I want to use symbols from child movie in parent movie. Possible?
Hi, You can use runtime shared libraries for this case I guess. You have the symbols in smiles.swf. go to the library and for each symbol define the linkage and set it to Export for runtime sharing. Then open the main movie and do ImportOpen External Library and drag the icon on stage and delete it Now you can use those symbols in main movie. Hope this helps Deepanjan Das On Jan 29, 2008 10:03 PM, Donald Trump [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey! Suppose I load an SWF that contains symbols inside the main movie. Let it be smiles for chat application - smiles.swf. Then I want to instantiate some of these symbols putting them on the main movie _root. That is essential, I want to add the instances to the main movie _root or _root's descendants. Is it possible with Flash 8? I have made some experiments and have come to conlusion that Flash allows to create symbol instances only inside the movie that the symbol is coming from. Am I right? Well, I know one workaround - to paint a symbol to a bitmap and add this bitmap to the main movie. However in my application I deal with interactive symbols not the smile bitmaps, so this approach doesn't work for me. ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders ___ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
