# SWF -\> AIM Buddy Icon?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-aim-buddy-icon/6909>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 19, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-aim-buddy-icon/6909 "2002-10-19T18:56:35Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![BMildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@BMildo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/BMildo)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-aim-buddy-icon/6909/1 "2002-10-19T18:56:35Z")

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^See Subject^  
Is there any way I can do this? I know that AIM doesn’t support .swf files, but is there any way to convert them to a different format?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2002, 7:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-aim-buddy-icon/6909/2 "2002-10-19T19:06:22Z")

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File/Export Movie and from the file type drop down box choose “Animated GIF (\*.gif)”

This will export your movie as a .gif animation. All your animation has to be on the main timeline though, nothing inside movie clips or it won’t export that.

Also… keep the file size low beacuse AIM does have a limit to your buddy icon size.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2002, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-aim-buddy-icon/6909/3 "2002-10-20T07:17:40Z")

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> All your animation has to be on the main timeline though

So does that mean that it has to be ALL on ONE LINE???

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2002, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-aim-buddy-icon/6909/4 "2002-10-20T07:31:29Z")

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Nonono, one timeline, Trin. 😛 It means, well, just what Lost said. No clips. :-\

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 20, 2002, 8:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-aim-buddy-icon/6909/5 "2002-10-20T08:28:54Z")

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you can have many layers but all your animation has to be out side of a movie clip

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 4:50am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-aim-buddy-icon/6909/6 "2002-10-21T04:50:14Z")

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and action script doesn’t work either.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 4:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-aim-buddy-icon/6909/7 "2002-10-21T04:52:54Z")

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Oh yeah, I forgot to put that 🙂

Thanks david.

Here are 2 .gifs I made in Flash for BWBM and I as avatars on a Transformers forum…

mine ![](http://www.8ballcreations.com/lostinbeta/banner/opicon2.gif) and his ![](http://www.8ballcreations.com/lostinbeta/banner/bwbmani.gif)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-aim-buddy-icon/6909/8 "2002-10-21T14:31:42Z")

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Nice avatars beta. What is the link to the transformer forum?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2002, 4:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swf-aim-buddy-icon/6909/9 "2002-10-21T16:36:53Z")

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Thanks sintax. The link is [www.tfgen3.com](http://www.tfgen3.com) , it is more BWBMs area, but I post there every now and then.