Teach Yourself Visually™ Flash® CS4 Professional

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You can create symbols in Flash

to make reusable graphics and

animations. Flash has three main

types of symbols: graphics,

movie clips, and buttons.

Graphic Symbols

Graphic objects, which are the simplest symbols

in Flash, are most commonly used as reusable

graphical assets or are used for Timeline animation

like tweens.

Movie Clips

Movie clip symbols are the foundation of Flash. In

essence, they are their own Flash movies that can exist

within your main Flash movie. Movie clips are also the

base symbol type that can have an instance name,

which allows ActionScript to reference your objects.

Types of

Symbols

Working with Symbols and Instances

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