I ran across a very strange behavior (which I believe to be a bug) when working on a somewhat large Flash project.
I don’t know the reason, but after one preview I did all the tweens generated in the authoring environment got whacked. And Flash seems to cache them rather than generate each one fresh for each publish/preview so what I got now is a movie with all the MovieClips anywhere deeper than the timeline behaving funnily. If I edit in place and preview only the tween that is having problems within the MovieClip, that tween gets fixed when I publish the entire project. I assume that Flash caches the tweens generated in the authoring environment to speed up the preview process. But in this case, the feature is working against me, since most of the tweens got corrupted and the only way to regenerate them I have found so far is going inside each one and republishing it, which is a very impractical thing to do in a movie with 100+ MovieClips that include tweens created in the authoring environment.
Has anyone encountered similar behavior? Does anyone here know of a way to force Flash to publish everything from scratch. (already tried Publish, Preview, and Publish after changing Publish settings. EXE projectors from this file also are affected).
Thanks in advance.
Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about the inner workings of Flash, so my reading of the situation could be mistaken, but to the best of my knowledge this is what seems to happen.