macromedia flash sitedesign: Hello,

I am currently trying to teach myself Flash MX. I am using the book Flash MX Saavy by Ethan Watrall and Norbert Herber.

I am on the section where I am learning about movie clips. The instructions say to create the movie (in this book, a fish swimming across the screen) that I go to

Insert - New Symbol
Then click on movie clip radio button
I import the fish from the CD tutorial
I enter 470 in the X field and -78.5 into the Y field of the Properties Inspector Window. (I have made sure that I clicked on the fish before I enter in the numbers)
Then to click on frame 90, and insert keyframe.
I select the fish with the arrow tool.
Again, I enter this time -400 into the X field and -78.5 into the Y field.
I select the first keyframe, and go Insert - Create Motion Tween
Then I go back to Edit-Document or Scene
I create a new layer and name it fish.
I select the first keyframe of the fish layer.
I open Library and drag the movie clip onto the Stage.

Then it tells me to simply go to Control - Test Movie or Control - Test Scene.

Here is the problem: the movie clip works in the library, but it doesn't work on the main scene document.

Please help, I've done this a dozen times, and I still can't get it to work. Any ideas as to why it won't work in the main timeline??

Thanks - rmitch

It must be something simple, but you are on the right lines. If you want to zip and upload the .fla i`ll have a look

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I tried attaching the .fla file here and it wouldn't work. This is crazy. - rmitch

click on attach file/browse to the file/upload/then click on the file/attach

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