CS5 wont x0 y0 a movieclip like Flash8 did.

Question

Hi,
Flash 8
1) New doc and insert >new symbol>graphic, draw a rectangle, give it a colour other than black and exit to scene1
2) Insert New MovieClip, dragdrop graphic from library to stage of movieclip, it has a small cross within the rectangle lower left of centre, relating to nothing in particular.   In properties make x 0 y 0 and exit back to scene1
3) Drag drop Movieclip from library to stage and in properties make x0 y0
The result is the rectangle sitting snug up in the left top corner of the stage with a little + at that top left corner.
That cross is what gets moved to 0,0 taking the MovieClip with it.
Ok so far.
Do this sequence in CS5 and at stage 3 there is a cross within the rectangle and not at its top left corner, When I make x0 y0 that cross locates to stage topleft and throws the rectangle out beyond the stage.
As such its not my Freehand vector prog artwork at fault. Its a difference in the programming of the two versions. An error in CS5 as one would expect artwork to register as it does in Flash8.
I noticed this as I am importing busroutes to stage, each has the same border and in Flash8 using x0 y0 I register all these back together again and in register with a base map. Works fine.
In flash CS5 they are coming in out of register, my MovieClip of a bus route sees a cross sitting outside of the rectangle's top left corner and x0 y0 sees the MovieClip offset South east to where it should go. Flsh8 manages all this no problem. I register many routes onto the map all at x0 y0. To work now with actionscript3 I am using CS5.
Why has CS5 an inability to place that cross topleft corner of my boxes , so messing up my registering of my artwork ?
What is the solution ?  Can I alter a setting and have it act like Flash8, the register + topleft for a MovieClip.
Is it going wrong in the graphic into MovieClip stage ?
Cheers
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Answer 1

Hi.
My graphic is drawn in Macromedia Freehand (now Adobe Freehand) and imported to Library.
1) Insert>NewSymbol>MovieClip and drag drop the graphic from library onto white area and make x0  y0
2) return to Scene1 and drag drop MoveClip to stage and make x0  y0 and top left corner of graphic registers with top left of stage.
Jobs a good 'un ! done it many times.
I am unable to import Freehand into CS5 so I open the Flash8 file into CS5 and copy paste the graphic from that file into my CS5 files library.
I do stages 1 and 2 only to see the MovieClip artwork sit offset south east of the stage corner with its cross located in that corner.
Is it the opening of these graphic files that work fine in Flash8 into CS5, ...no !  heres the evidence:-
Comparing both programs with native boxes drawn in those progs:-
Flash8
1) File>New then insert>New symbol>Graphic, we see a +
2) Draw a box with the + in the lower right portion of the box and within the box area. (DO NOT select it and make x0  y0 (as per freehand file in other words)  )
3) Exit to Scene1
4) Insert>New symbol>MovieClip, see a white area with a +, then dragdrop the graphic onto the white with the + of the movieclip stage sitting within the lower left portion of the graphic, the graphic now has two +'s, the other being that from step1.
So far Flash 8 and CS5 are the same.
5) make x 0  y0 and the left + now moves to the top left corner of the graphic.
IN CS5 the MovieClip stage + vanishes, we have only one + still near bottom right and its the one from step 2.
6) exit to scene1
7) drag drop MovieClip from lib to stage. We see our graphic with a + top left corner
In CS5 there is no + in its top left corner.
8) make x 0  y 0 and the top left corner of the box is now at the top left corner of the stage.
In CS5 the box is out beyond the stage, with the + from step 2 positioned top left corner of stage !
Its quite evident that CS5 is handling graphics differently.
So do the graphics look different in Flash8 and CS5 if double clicked from within library, no !  both have a + sitting out beyond the top left corner.
This doesnt see Flash8 use it but does see CS5 use it to offset the MovieClip from where I need it to go.
It looks like I shall have to introduce a new stage in the well trodden process,, that of import graphic to library then d/click it and make x 0  y 0 before procedding further. Doing this sees the cross restored to the top left corner in steps 5 and 6 above, and correct registration in 8.
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