Flash Question - AS2 in CS5.5
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- monNom
I hardly work in Flash anymore, so I thought I'd put this out to the community here for some input. I have a legacy AS2.0 project I'me trying to edit in Flash CS5.5
There are some buttons in the file which I'm not able to actually select/move/edit their event listeners (attached to symbol instance)
They work fine when published, and the whole project compiles with no errors.
So my question is, Is this a feature/known functionality of newer versions of flash? Is there a workaround to maintain AS2.0 documents?
Cheers
- monNom0
new button instances created within the file exhibit the same behaviour.
- CyBrainX0
It's hard to tell what you mean. Can you post a swf or the fla?
- mikotondria30
you mean the class old
on(press){
doThing();
getURL($mysite,"_blank);
}
that's on the button's AS panel can't be edited ?I don't know the answer, I'm hoping that might clarify the problem.
Personally, I wouldn't waste too much time trying to track down an answer when it would probably be quicker to just get an old copy from a dank corner of the interwebs somewhere. You've got a full, current copy, if that influences your ethical decision positively. It should.
- CyBrainX0
You really shouldn't be putting scripts on movie clips or buttons.
Also, check to see this isn't AS3 in you publish settings. AS3 actually prohibits putting scripts on objects like that.
- uan0
last year I had to change some target url in an old flash file.
The changes only worked when I compiled from an old flash version, updating in cs5 flash didn't work, even if everything was correct (or I thought it was).
my guess was that they changed something in the compiler, but I never investigated it.as mikotondria proposed, get an old flash version and edit / compile there.
- monNom0
Yes, the oldschool on(release){ //actionscripts } buttons. You can't even select them to adjust their position, it's ridiculous.
Unfortunately someone else had saved the file to CS5.5 a number of versions ago and the issue only came up now. Currently redoing all changes from an older CS3 version... and shaking my head.
- fyoucher10
If the code is attached to the movieclip instance, then you need to FIRST select the item on the timeline, and THEN open up the Actions panel to see the code. Although deprecated, in AS2 you can still attach events to movieclip instances.
That's all.
FYI, CS6 wont even show AS2 as an option.
- jpm0
Maybe if your share the fla (or remove all but buttons and sahre that compact one) we can take a look at the problem.
The funny thing about flash is that it's almost dead except for the banner thingy. And most of media press requires AS2 coded banners. Go figure!