How do I change the symbol timeline from a movie clip to a button?

Posted August 19, 2004

This is maybe pretty basic, but isn’t something that I just learned in my self tutorial of Flash. If you are creating a symbol, moving quickly, you set the type to a movie clip or graphic, and mean a to make a button, you can change the type in the properties inspector. But this won’t change the timeline in the symbol. Instead;

Open the Library (F11)
Right click the symbol
Choose Behavior
Change to a different symbol type

I am using a component, and it isn’t working, what do I do?

Always double check your publish settings when working with Flash MX vs. Flash MX 2004, because the component architecture is different and uses a more recent version of Actionscript.

Go to File > Publish Settings (Ctrl+Shift+F12)

Make sure, when you check Flash, to select Flash Player Compatibly with Version 7, and Actionscript Ver 2.0. Ver 1.1 is used with the component set in Flash MX.

When I paste text into Flash, the text goes off of the canvas, how do I set the text field size?

When pasting text into Flash, make sure to drag click the text box so that the upper left corner does not have a circle, but a square, signaling a fixed box size for the text to wrap inside.