i'm having a hard time sorting out all of the nuances in linking/importing/exporting/sharing libraries. I'm using MX if that makes things any different.
my plan at the moment is to break up my movie into seperate FLAs which will load each other as necessary. many of them use the same symbols, so i had planned to put those symbols in a central "library" fla to cut down on file size/load time/duplication/future editing hassles.
but i have a few questions.
first: when looking at the properties panel for a symbol, i see two sections under "advanced": 'linkage' and 'source'. what's the difference between the two? when would you use one, and when would you use the other?
two: will there be a filesize difference in my fla/swf by linking symbols to a central library? (i don't see one yet.)
three: i'm currently using the central library as the "source" for all of my commonly used symbols, but when i hit "browse" to find these symbols, the file associated with the central library is always shown as absolute (ie, "C:\blah\library.fla"
. I assume this would be a problem if i moved all of my files to a different directory? Additionally, would this affect the compiled SWFs when they were uploaded to the server (where they would obviously be in a different directory)?
four: i'm copying a lot of my symbols over to the library from an older file by dragging it from one library to the other, and this is causing the "source" to show as the older file. (I've tried both regular dragging and CTRL-dragging.) I plan on deleting this older file very soon, and would rather not have anything pointing to it. Is there a way i can fix this without having to recreate all of the symbols?
thank you all for your time. i hope i've explained this concisely and accurately. and if not... well, lemme know. Liam Morley
lmorley@gdc.wpi.edu
"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.
light the world, and bring depth to the silence."
my plan at the moment is to break up my movie into seperate FLAs which will load each other as necessary. many of them use the same symbols, so i had planned to put those symbols in a central "library" fla to cut down on file size/load time/duplication/future editing hassles.
but i have a few questions.
first: when looking at the properties panel for a symbol, i see two sections under "advanced": 'linkage' and 'source'. what's the difference between the two? when would you use one, and when would you use the other?
two: will there be a filesize difference in my fla/swf by linking symbols to a central library? (i don't see one yet.)
three: i'm currently using the central library as the "source" for all of my commonly used symbols, but when i hit "browse" to find these symbols, the file associated with the central library is always shown as absolute (ie, "C:\blah\library.fla"
. I assume this would be a problem if i moved all of my files to a different directory? Additionally, would this affect the compiled SWFs when they were uploaded to the server (where they would obviously be in a different directory)?four: i'm copying a lot of my symbols over to the library from an older file by dragging it from one library to the other, and this is causing the "source" to show as the older file. (I've tried both regular dragging and CTRL-dragging.) I plan on deleting this older file very soon, and would rather not have anything pointing to it. Is there a way i can fix this without having to recreate all of the symbols?
thank you all for your time. i hope i've explained this concisely and accurately. and if not... well, lemme know. Liam Morley
lmorley@gdc.wpi.edu
"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.
light the world, and bring depth to the silence."