# Flash Bitmap Symbol Problem
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-bitmap-symbol-problem/13258
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 10, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-bitmap-symbol-problem/13258 "2003-02-10T22:27:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@pp\_anonymous](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pp_anonymous)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-bitmap-symbol-problem/13258/1 "2003-02-10T22:27:53Z")
I’m having a problem with my flash movie…
I have a movie consisting of 9 square graphic symbols, in different layers, that fit together to make one large square image… I’ve animated the individual symbols, and it looks fine in Flash 5, but when I try to test the scene or the movie, or when I try to export it as .swf, the individual symbols are all the same… if I export it as .avi, it looks fine…
WHY?!?!
Can anyone help me???
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2003, 4:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-bitmap-symbol-problem/13258/2 "2003-02-11T04:34:21Z")
If I’m understanding you correctly, it sounds like you have a stop action in there somewhere that is preventing your movie from playing when you test it or export it out as a swf. I think when you export it as a AVI, the stop actions are ignored, I could be wrong though. If you can’t figure it out then post the file here so we could take a look. =)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2003, 1:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-bitmap-symbol-problem/13258/3 "2003-02-11T13:08:40Z")
Hi!
Thanks for your reply!
If you mean an action in the frame that stops it from playing, I don’t think that’s the problem. The problem is in how the symbols themselves show up. Imagine a tic tac toe board, each square is a piece of a picture. The problem is that each of the pieces of the picture are showing up as the same picture so that I have a grid that consists of a repeating pattern instead of different pieces that fit together to make one large picture… But it shows up and plays fine when I play it in Flash itself, it only happens after I export it… anyway, maybe I’m not making myself clear, you can see the file at [www.amca.us.cnchost.com](http://www.amca.us.cnchost.com) . But I didn’t put in a preloader yet, so you might have to wait a little bit for the whole thing to play properly. Thank you so much!