RE: FLASH: Deleting unused items from the Library?

[John Dowdell]

At 1:07 PM 11/28/0, Rebecca  Lovelace wrote:

>The question is why does it think the button is used?  I'd love to know the

>reasoning behind this.  Morbid curiousity, I guess.


It's just a computer... manipulates bits. It can't think very well. You

might try the one-or-all tests to confirm that a simple import into a new

file shows what you expect, and you can then trim the differences between

the two cases.


Need to freshen a bitmap? Hit that "Update" button in its Library Info.


Other tidbits: Symbols not used in the timeline will not be compiled into a

SWF. (The exception to this is if you set its linkage to external in F5, in

which it must be compiled into the SWF.) Deleting a symbol won't change the

FLA filesize... do a "Save As" to rewrite the file from top to bottom (a

regular "Save" just appends changes).


jd





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