Using actionscript animations as movie clips?

programming flash
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I’m relatively new to Flash MX, so here’s a question: several times now I’ve created text animations using actionscript. When I convert them into movie clip symbols, and place them onto a stage, they no longer animate… what could be wrong? They work fine before the conversion to symbol status…

Help!

WW

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do you mean they are tweened rather than scripted ? when you converted, did the tween line break ? … need more on how you got where you are to try to understand what may be wrong.

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*Originally posted by RelandR *
**do you mean they are tweened rather than scripted ? when you converted, did the tween line break ? … need more on how you got where you are to try to understand what may be wrong. **

Sorry - these are scripted animations. For instance, I took the text animation at kirupa.com - ActionScript Guide
ascript_text_animation.htm, turned it into a movie clip (as a test), and placed it on a stage. It don’t work.

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Instance name(s) and Paths is more likely where it broke then …
the script is written expecting certain clipNames @ certain path associations.
(ie: _root is now one level down from the rest.)

not having looked it thru I can’t comment specificaly but I’d bet dollars to doughnuts there’s yer problem, …btw - link above is broke

does it work as the only content on the main timeline of a new movie ?

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http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/ascript_text_animation.htm

Try that. You’re probably right. Can’t I just change the path to _parent, instead of root?

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I see the rest of yer link now…here it is::

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/ascript_text_animation.htm

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well I need to clean install today (procrastinating :sure: right now) so I can’t open and test/look at stuff but off the cuff I’d say that would be an answer - all paths would have to reflect their true location in the nesting heirarchy(sp?)…also if you’re going to invoke your new clip from your main timeline, you’ll need an instance name for it.

You may want to test it independently (pre- conversion) to be sure you have it working in the first place… then play with the reassignment of paths in the other movie