Question about symbol referencing

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Here’s something I noticed while examining the source file for the old rayoflight.net website (the one with the girl):

In the various submenues, the artist has lines of text which change their alpha value and drop lower, one after another.

However, he did something with the text without any apparent coding that I cannot understand. He would place different lines of text in different frames of a graphic symbol; for instance, three lines of text would be in three separate frames in the same layer of a certain graphic symbol.

Then, he took instances of this symbol and animated them three different times, each time referencing a different frame of the graphic symbol and thus displaying another line of text.

I could not find any actionscripting referencing these separate frames in the graphic symbol, I was wondering how it is possible that the movies are referencing and stopping at specific frames of a graphic symbol without any code.

Does anyone know how this technique works, and if there is some magic coding going on? I’ve asked a few people and so far everyone seems baffled. If you have any info on this subject please let me know… Many thanks in advance!!

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if he knew how long the text animations were he could have timed a stop action to coincide with that frame by putting it in the main timeline that many frames later… I guess i dont really under stand the question

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What you said makes sense, but oddly enough in the source file, different instances of the symbol in the same movie are calling up different, specific frames within that symbol and displaying only those frames, with no actionscripts that I could see either in any frames or on the symbols.

If I cannot get any clues I will post the source file somewhere where it can be checked out, this is driving me crazy!!

Thanks for trying though!!