Adobe Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

More-Complex Animation Tasks

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Using Animated Graphic Symbols

Figure 12.38 Select the animated graphic

symbol you want to use, and then drag a

copy to your Flash document to place an

instance on the Stage.

Figure 12.39 When you drag an instance of the

animated graphic symbol to the Stage, you see the

symbol’s fi rst frame with its graphics selected. You

must add frames to allow the full animation of the

symbol to play in the main movie.

Using Animated Graphic

Symbols

To put an animated graphic symbol to work,

you must place an instance of it in your main

movie.  e layer of the movie where you

place the symbol must have enough frames

to display ...