External Library Path for components?

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Hi,

I want to:

  1. Place symbols on the stage manually in loaded.fla
  2. Exclude these symbols from the swf because they will already be in loading.swf

So I:

  1. Created a component.fla

  2. Created a “comp” symbol in the fla

  3. Turned that symbol into a component via Component Definition

  4. Exported the comp.swz into Configuration/Components/MyComps

  5. Opened up loaded.fla

  6. Pulled the comp component onto the stage

  7. Went to file AS settings and added Configuration/Components/MyComps to the External Library Paths

  8. Compiled loaded.swf and played it

BUT the swf includes the comp component on the stage…which is NOT what I wanted. I only want the swf to work and have a reference to comp when it it loaded into loading.swf.

Why haven’t the classes in comp been excluded?

Obviously this is a workaround for runtime shared libraries, which is unpredictable, time-wasting and generally painful. Is there a better way to retain WYSIWYG and share symbols? I don’t want to do dynamic placing.

Thanks!

Matt