Imported SWF loose part of animation

I have imported an SWF (butterfly following a path, flapping
the wings) into a FLA project library and have dragged it onto a
frame in my project. When I publish the FLA the butterfly is
following the path, but the wings are no longer flapping... How
come? When I play the butterfly SWF alone without importing it it
works great.
Thanks!
Anna

Gatta Design wrote:
> Thanks Urami. I have been able to import just the Wing
flap movie clip but not
> the whole swf where it is following a timeline. When I
change the clip to
> graphic it looses the wing flap as well...
Sorry, forgot to mention. you might need to set a loop on the
graphic
symbol properties. Select the wings movie clip, CTRL F3
(properties panel)
change behavior to graphic and set the loop number.
> Since I want this butterfly only on
> ONE page in my web site I don't get how to create the
timeline in the same
> Flash file as the web site?
Sorry, I'm afraid I don't understand what is that you try to
do.
Can you elaborate please ?
Best if you upload the image to your server, let us download
and check
than based on your source work to the solution.
Best Regards
Urami
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