# Anything placed on stage automatically disappears

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anything-placed-on-stage-automatically-disappears/294918>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 22, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anything-placed-on-stage-automatically-disappears/294918 "2009-08-22T03:04:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 22, 2009, 3:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/anything-placed-on-stage-automatically-disappears/294918/1 "2009-08-22T03:04:11Z")

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Hello all,

I am a new-comer to these forums, as I am still trying to get used to Flash CS4.

This seems like a very simple problem (might not even be a problem at all), but I can’t figure out for the life of me.

Everytime I open up a new window, and as I randomly begin to draw in pencil or make rectangles, when the focus on the window is changed to somewhere else my drawings just disappear. Does anybody know why that is?