Hi, you've answered your own question I'm afraid.
There is one other option, paint bitmaps to a symbol :). So all the assets for an interactive smiley are stored as bitmaps and you create a movieclip from that. greetz JC On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Donald Trump <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey! > > Suppose I load an SWF that contains symbols inside the main movie. Let it > be smiles for > chat application - smiles.swf. > Then I want to instantiate some of these symbols putting them on the main > movie _root. > That is essential, I want to add the instances to the main movie _root or > _root's > descendants. > Is it possible with Flash 8? > > I have made some experiments and have come to conlusion that Flash allows > to create > symbol instances only inside the movie that the symbol is coming from. > Am I right? > > Well, I know one workaround - to paint a symbol to a bitmap and add this > bitmap to the > main movie. However in my application I deal with interactive symbols not > the smile > bitmaps, so this approach doesn't work for me. > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
