Link Editing Problem

Question

I'm new to Flash, so any help would be appreciated. In Flash,
the menu links from my website cannot be individually edited. In
the library pane, there is only one symbol, "HOME PAGE,"
represented for the six navigational links on my home page. On the
stage, all six links appear but they ALL say, "HOME PAGE." When I
edit one to say something else (like "ABOUT" or something) all six
links change to say the same thing. The weird thing is that when
the website is loaded in the browser, they say their individual
respective names. Only in Flash do they come up as the same thing,
"HOME PAGE" Are my individual links anchored together? What can I
do to change the individual links, but still have them animate as
they do now?

Answer 1

Well, that's the way Flash works. When you create a symbol,
no matter how many times you use it on the stage, if you change any
part of that symbol, you essentially change all occurrences of that
symbol. Just make a duplicate of the symbol in the library, rename
it to "about us", place it on the stage, give it action script, and
you are set. It is possible to have only one symbol used many times
and have different title names, and that would be through action
script. You would have to create a dynamic text field within the
button symbol, then at run time, set the text property of that
dynamic text box to whatever name you want for that button. But,
the simplest way would be to create a simple button template (make
it how you want all the buttons to look), then just duplicate that
template into "about us", etc, and within those duplicates, you can
change parts of that button to reflect that particular link.