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I need to figure out how to toggle the visibility of text in Canvas.  I had it working with my old SWFs, but I haven’t been able to translate it to Canvas because I’m a JavaScript neonate.  Before I can define what I need, I have to explain how my files are set up.  They are stop action, animated lessons.  They play until a point in the timeline is reached with a this.stop(); command. I call these stop points FreezeFrames.  After the user studies a FreezeFrame , clicking the screen resumes playback until it reaches the next FreezeFrame .  Now at each FreezeFrame explanatory text appears.  What I need is a button that will toggle this text on and off.  Each time the button is clicked it should also toggle itself between a Hide Text Button, which will turn it off, and a Text Button, which turns it back on.  Note, these buttons need to work globally.  If say the Text Button is clicked in one FreezeFrame , the text should remain on unl

I'm using Animate 2022 v 22.0.5 on Mac.I've already pressed J, doesn't work. I'm not accidentally pressing it either.Object drawing mode seems to just turn on while I'm drawing and when I try to turn it off it's grayed out. I tried all 3 different brush tools and it's still the same. VERY frustrating that the only fix to this so far is to just hope it magically fixes itself while I'm working or I restart Animate.What is going on? The only conclusion I can come up with is it's a bug in the recent update. A few months ago I NEVER had this problem. If there's a solution other than restarting Animate everytime that'd be great.  

I just downloaded Animate 22 after using the 2019 version for a while, and everytime I open the program there's this white screen that's covering the entire stage.Whatever I draw shows up under the white screen. I know this because whenever I close the program, for 1 moment the screen disappears and I can see everything I drew underneath. You can also see it on the edge of the white screen as well (picture attached, it's those blue strokes on the right side of the stage).This problem occurs both on new projects and older ones as well. And while we're at it, does anyone know how to download the 2019 version? The earliest version I could find is the 2021 one. 

Hi all, when I am adding a Button element from the library using addChild, the button loops throught its four stages continuously (and doesn't function like a button at all). Am I doing something wrong? Many thanks!

Deliberately vague in my subject because I don't want to limit your responses...I don't know the correct jargon (I am a newbie learning Animate CC)Having created a lovely interactive animation I now want to put it on the internet (with ease). I'm extremely inexperienced and I don't mind paying for a simple service that takes my creation and puts it publicly on the internet so the public can see it. Please help and don't fear recommending brands to me. I currently own the rights to a domain name with Google Domains. Thank youNice to meet you all

Animate初心者です。YouTubeなど動画をみてリップシンク機能を試していましたが、うまく出来ませんでした。イラストレイヤーの中で液体ブラシツールで簡単な顔を書いて口の部分だけ選択してシンボルにしてから、0f：ニュートラル、1f：あ、2f：い....のように口の種類を作りました。それからプロパティのリップシンクから発音に対応するイラストを設定して同期する音声を選択したのですが、画像2枚目のようにほとんどニュートラルになってしまいました。Animateの基本的な機能を理解していないため原因がどこにあるかも見当がついていないのですが、音声ファイルのゲインが小さすぎるなどでうまくいかなかったりするのでしょうか？それとも日本語との相性が悪いのでしょうか？    

All is in the title...Why in 2020 "Trim paths" is still not available in Animate CC?? It's a basic animation effect, available in after effect but for strange and mysterious reasons unknown in Animate where it's really a nightmare to create similar effect (and spend hours), however Trim path would so have his place in Animate.I'm an illustrator and animator, I use Animate for 99% of my work and I SO need this option... PLEASE update it!!!!(and sorry for my uggly english)

I've never used animate. I'd like to make some quick graphics with moving words. or stars moving in the background of static words.  simple fast quick. I know those are really easy to make in canva; save as a gif;  it's done. Does animate have preset options for moving words and pictures? What programs do you use for short moving social media graphics? i like adobe products; but need something quick and easy to learn with preset options instead of having to figure out new ones on my own! 

Many of the symbols in my library haven't been showing up for maybe the last few months or so when I use the replace symbol feature. Not sure what happened but it used to work, any one have any tips? 🙂 

Hello,I would like to start with an introduction. I am currently doing an internship in a company and my task is to make an interactive infographic. For that, as you can tell, I used Animate. All went well until it came to publishing. Those issues are not the main problem, but maybe it is important. If I exported my infographic with separate .js and html files it never worked for website implementation, as there where errors in js and a looooot of lines of code. Also, if I tried to export images as textures, all interacitivty was lost. So , the only way it worked was to include the script in html and export images as image assets. When I handed it to our web developer he was able to use it and put it on our test page. However, it is only visible to him and only if he logs in into his web developement tool. So, I am trying to help him to figure it out and learn if I did something wrong while exporting/creating it. If you have any tips or suggestions, or maybe you need som

Need to shift an animated object that has a mask. When I go to do this it adds an additional dotted green line (a motion path). How can I prevent that from happening? I just want to re-position this object/clip. Thank you.

Hi, I would like some help on how to remove the white banners beside the web? I have looked into publish/responsive settings, but no changes? Do I have to code to make the screen fullsize? Many thanks, Millie Jones

Hi im a newbie here. I have a project (movie warehouse) where in homepage it shows movie recommendation based on its category/genre, when you click the movie it direct you to the movie trailer. So im planning to put only one movie trailer each category but the problem is when i duplicate the layer that's already finished id like to replace the trailer with another video but it seems didnt work, is there any tips to solve my problem? thankyou:)

Hi, I have a few .png files in my project library. I'd like to add and remove them based on some other user input using JS. These are my functions.function addMoleculeImage(name) { let file_extension = ".png"; let temp_name = name.concat(file_extension).toString(); stage.addChild(temp_name); } function removeMoleculeImage(name) { let file_extension = ".png"; let temp_name = name.concat(file_extension).toString(); stage.removeChild(temp_name); } I get the following error in the console:Uncaught TypeError: Cannot create property 'parent' on string 'acetate.png' Any ideas why this is happening? Am I misunderstanding how to call something from my project library (I'm guessing so!)? Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi. I would like to extract bitmaps from FLA files from the command line. If I unzip a FLA document I can find some of the bitmaps as PNG images, but most images are stored in a bin folder as .dat files, and I can't make them usable. Is there a way to convert those files to PNG? I know that I can export all BitmapItems by calling exportToFile from a JSFL script, but I want to extract them from the command line without having to start the editor. If there was a command line tool for this as part of Animate/CC that would be nice.

Here is a video of the problem I'm having: https://youtu.be/6tLB4Jt5DQsThe animation appears fine when it is played via the timeline. It is only when I export that a number of the symbols are out of place.Here is another video, this time of the animation as it appears, with the symbols correctly in place, in the timeline: https://youtu.be/v7wEqiy51EMAgain, it is only upon export that the problems appear.

Hi Guy'sis it possible to Use layer depth within a nested symbol? I have a character i've created with each limb on a seperate layer, once the the character is complete I like to nest all the layers into a single graphic symbol, kind of like having a master/global symble that I can move, rotate or scale on the canvas and then double click on it and animate everything within  the symbol as I see fit, the only problem is that adobe animate removes/prevents using layer depth as you're no longer on the main timeline,  Please any kind of input would me appreciated

Hi, please how can I change the scaling of UI in Animate? After installation of newest version the UI is extremly small. I dont find scalling in Preferences dialog.

Hi, all. Still pretty new to Animate. I built out an HTML 5 Canvas project recently and now need to use advanced layers. When I switch on advanced layers in the existing project .fla, it moves my existing symbols to a different location on the canvad, I imagine because they are anchored in a particular way. Not sure. Any reason why this would happen?  Does switching on advanced layers move an origin point or something like that? Thanks in advance.

I have a large animation I've been working on in Animate 2019cc. Yesterday I thought I'd try out Animate 2022. I downloaded it and loaded up my animation with no complications. I created a new scene and worked on it for hours. I saved the file, not as a new file, and closed the program. It had saved perfectly fine, with no errors or program crashes. Today I loaded up the file and the new scene I created is gone. This is the same exact file I saved - the time stamp even tells me I last worked on it yesterday. I do have autosave on, but since the file was saved manually there's no recovery file. All my progress is just gone as if I hadn't even created and spent a day's worth of work on it. 

I'm trying to make a gradient fade into 0 alpha sort of as lighting in Animate and I don't know why it doesn't export the blend with the png. I heard you're supposed to apparently use a movie clip but that's basically it. This is what it's supposed to look like This is what it ends up looking like

Hello! It has been a few years since I have worked in Animate, in particular to export digital banners for Google Ads. I know the file weight restrictions are very low and I though I had everything set up the way I did in the past to make this work, however I am getting a really heavy file called "createjs.min.js" on export. This is coming in around 240K itself, pushing me way over the limit. Anyone know a work around to either remove OR at best significatly reduce this size of this? I have attached a screen shot of the file in my browser.  Thanks!Nick

Hi all, In the last week only, every time I try to create a symbol (F8) or right click create Symbol the stage completely freezes indefinitely. The only way to do anything is to go to Task Manager and end task on the program. I'm running windows 10, which only recently installed but I have managed to create a symbol under the Win 10 environment. Any advise would be awesome. thanks

I'm at my wits end. I need to update Adobe Animate so I can use the Lip Sync feature, but it seems this is only doable through the Creative Cloud desktop app, and it never prompts me for my password. I enter my account email, the little green checkmark comes up, and then nothing happens. It freezes.    <edited to remove personal info-kglad>     Please help. I can log into my account on a web browser fine, but can't update Animate         through it. I cannot uninstall the creative cloud app, because my computer says other applications need it to function.  

I haven't found any way to change the default tween effect when applying a classic tween. It always defaults to classic (linear) easing, but I'd prefer to be able to change it to the tween type that I'm using most commonly for a give project (usually ease in out cubic).