"tradmusic.com" <sales@NOSHPAMtradmusic.com> wrote in message
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> Hi. Really basic question...I'm using Studio 8 (Flash 8) and I have
> converted a bitmap to a symbol so I can animate it.
> I want to, stage by stage, delete little sections of the bitmap, then to
> reverse this sequence to give the impression that the image is "growing",
> as it were, but stupid Flash won't let me use the eraser tool on the
> symbol! Surely I don't have to create a seperate bitmap image of every
> stage and then import ALL of that into Flash library, do I? If so, then
> I'm going to go back to animated gifs! :o))
>
> Hope someone can point me in the right direction because the only help in
> the manual is the "bouncing tyre" animation and that is no help at all.
>
> Thanks
> nath.
>

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> There are a couple ways to do this. You could use an animated mask over
> the bitmap. Otherwise, in order to erase the image you will need to break
> the image apart.
>
>
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> "tradmusic.com" <sales@NOSHPAMtradmusic.com> wrote in message
> news:elul4a$lft$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>> Hi. Really basic question...I'm using Studio 8 (Flash 8) and I have
>> converted a bitmap to a symbol so I can animate it.
>> I want to, stage by stage, delete little sections of the bitmap, then to
>> reverse this sequence to give the impression that the image is "growing",
>> as it were, but stupid Flash won't let me use the eraser tool on the
>> symbol! Surely I don't have to create a seperate bitmap image of every
>> stage and then import ALL of that into Flash library, do I? If so, then
>> I'm going to go back to animated gifs! :o))
>>
>> Hope someone can point me in the right direction because the only help in
>> the manual is the "bouncing tyre" animation and that is no help at all.
>>
>> Thanks
>> nath.
>>
>
>

tradmusic.com wrote:
> Hi. Really basic question...I'm using Studio 8 (Flash 8) and I have
> converted a bitmap to a symbol so I can animate it.
> I want to, stage by stage, delete little sections of the bitmap, then to
> reverse this sequence to give the impression that the image is "growing", as
> it were, but stupid Flash won't let me use the eraser tool on the symbol!
> Surely I don't have to create a seperate bitmap image of every stage and
> then import ALL of that into Flash library, do I? If so, then I'm going to
> go back to animated gifs! :o))
>
> Hope someone can point me in the right direction because the only help in
> the manual is the "bouncing tyre" animation and that is no help at all.
>
> Thanks
> nath.
>