Sharing Art Across Multiple Files

[Unhurdof]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post here.

I'm using Flash 8, and I hope I word this correctly.

How would I set it up so that I can share a single piece of art across multiple files?

My goal is to arrange it so that I can edit the art in the original file and automatically update the art in all files linked to it when published?

For example, I'm working on a character animation where the character appears in many episodes and the episodes are split into many .fla files.

If I needed to change the appearance of the character in all of the episodes which are spread across many .fla files, I would I have to do it manually?

Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
Unhurdof

[Noct]

Welcome aboard,

You can share a library across multiple files, but you would still need to republish the swf to see updates to library items.

The only way you could make changes to your character and have it carried across other files that contained him would be to make him a totally external swf that the other swfs loaded in at runtime. Look into the movieClip loader class.