Sams Teach Yourself Macromedia® Flash™ 8 in 24 Hours

Chapter 12. Animating Using Movie Clip and Graphic Symbols

What You'll Learn in This Hour:

• How to make and use nested clips

• That a movie clip is a symbol with its own independent Timeline

• How Movie Clip symbols are fundamentally different from Graphic symbols

• That movie clips are addressable

When you see what Movie Clip symbols can do, you'll be blown away. Inside a movie clip, you can create an animation and then animate an instance of that clip. This means, for example, that you can create a rotating wheel clip and then animate the rotating wheel so that it not only rotates but moves across the screen as well. Symbols, as a general concept, should not be new to you. You learned quite a bit about them in Hour 4, “Using the Library for Productivity.” ...