How to desactivate a Symbol

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December 28, 2022
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Hi everyone

I've created a symbol with all my animation inside but I want now to get back and put everything on the main scene, I don't need the symbol yet, how can I do that ? thanks

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Mario_CR

Community Expert

There is a relatively new option to have the contents of a symbol back into the main stage called "Break Apart Symbol to Layers". The option will preserve layers, frames, tweens and position.

Select the symbol, right-click and choose it from the contextual menu:

kglad

Community Expert

copy all its layer/frames and paste on the main timeline. be careful doing this, and be quick to use the undo to reverse undesirable outcomes.

first save your fla with a version number appended. click the first frame in the top layer and shfit click the last frame in the bottom layer to select all the layers/frames. right click over the selected and click copy.

to your main timeline and create a new layer and select the first frame/keyframe, right click, click paste. make adjustments and when you think it's ok, save with an increased version number.

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neophus775Author

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Maybe you can't help me in a diferent way, creating a symbol I've seen that when I export to HTML5 the final frame end with a black background. It's due to the symbol created I think, it was perfect on the main scene, do you know how to desactivate it maybe ?

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neophus775Author

Known Participant

i don't understand what you're describing.

but if you want to create html5 files, start with an html5 project. or, if you have an as3 project with some (or a lot) of the work already done, convert that to html5 and then start editing to fix the problems that didn't convert properly.

as3 to html5 almost never converts everything perfectly.

now, if you're working on your html5 project and notice that a background failed to copy to your main timeline (esp, if that's the symbol's last frame), it's almost certainly because you failed to copy that background layer's last frame. you could do the obvious and copy and paste from the symbol to the main timeline, or if that's an unchanging background, just extend the main timeline background layer one more frame.

When I export my animation to HTML5 and I read it the final frame ended with a black background, before creating a symbol with all my animation I didn't have it, do you know if there is a possibility to change this ?

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