Activating Pen Tool Endpoints in Flash

I'm trying to create an animated stick figure. Im used to adobe Illustrator, so i am confused by the Pen tool in flash. when i drag the direct selection tool over an anchor point to move it - it doesn't hilight the way it does in AI. I seem to have to actually find the point and click on it to activate it. This seems like an inferior way for the line tool to work. Am i missing something? Should it hilight / activate when I run the pointer over it - or is that jsut the way it is.
BTW, are there any good tutorials on animating a stick figure that anyone could point me to? maybe that will help me understand how the Pen tool works.
Many thanks in advance!
Karen

Flash works quite differently than AI. If you want to work with anchor points, you neet a Subselection Tool (white arrow).
At first, you need to select a path so the anchor points get visible. Notice the little icon in the lower right corner of the cursor when you hover the path. It should be black filled rect.
When you move cursor over an anchor point, the rect changes to empty one. After selecting an anchor point, you can hover its control points and then the whole cursor changes from white arrow to black filled arrow.

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perfectgem wrote:
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> I am trying to use the Flash pen tool to create a shape
to use as a mask. All
> of the tutorials say that if I close the lines drawn
with the pen tool by
> clicking on the first point (tool show a o) it will
automatically fill. This
> worked for me once but I cannot get it to close and fill
again. Any
> suggestions about what I might be doing wrong?
>

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