Link editing problem

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flashbrian - 11 Jul 2008 14:37 GMT

I'm new to Flash, so any help would be appreciated. In Flash, the menu links
from my website cannot be individually edited. In the library pane, there is
only one symbol, "HOME PAGE," represented for the six navigational links on my
home page. On the stage, all six links appear but they ALL say, "HOME PAGE."
When I edit one to say something else (like "ABOUT" or something) all six links
change to say the same thing. The weird thing is that when the website is
loaded in the browser, they say their individual respective names. Only in
Flash do they come up as the same thing, "HOME PAGE" Are my individual links
anchored together? What can I do to change the individual links, but still
have them animate as they do now?

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Shan-Dysigns - 11 Jul 2008 20:11 GMT

Well, that's the way Flash works. When you create a symbol, no matter how many
times you use it on the stage, if you change any part of that symbol, you
essentially change all occurrences of that symbol. Just make a duplicate of the
symbol in the library, rename it to "about us", place it on the stage, give it
action script, and you are set. It is possible to have only one symbol used
many times and have different title names, and that would be through action
script. You would have to create a dynamic text field within the button symbol,
then at run time, set the text property of that dynamic text box to whatever
name you want for that button. But, the simplest way would be to create a
simple button template (make it how you want all the buttons to look), then
just duplicate that template into "about us", etc, and within those duplicates,
you can change parts of that button to reflect that particular link.

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