Preview of a movieclip

Hello,
On main stage when working with a movieclip symbol that contains animation i only see first frame of that animation. And if that animation starts blank the preview of that movieclip symbol will also be blank. And its very hard to do any kind of work with that kind of movieclip symbol on the main stage - selecting, composing with other elements, because simply you dont see it. Is there a way to chose which frame of a movieclip is displayed as a preview? Currently my workaround is to insert one aditional frame at the start of movieclip's timeline and paste onto it a graphic that will represent the movieclip, then delete it after all the work has been done.
Thank you!

HAving something in the first frame is needed if you want to see the movieclip while editing on the stage. What you can do, instead of deleting after the work has been done, place the graphic on a new layer and when you are done change that layer to be a Guide layer so that it is not included when the file is compiled, but is still there in case you need it again.

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button.
1) i can't imagine that you have a XML structure as deep as
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Cheers

Few random things I'd try..
First, are you running this in debugger? (CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER)? If not then use that means of executing and put some breakpoints in the code so you can watch the code execute step by step to see what's generating an error. In publish settings for this SWF in the SWF parameters make sure you check to permit debugging to get more verbose errors:
Explicitly including ExternalInterface rather than flash.external.*;. It should include it (and everything in the package) but I've had lookup issues with this before. So:
import flash.external.ExternalInterface;
See if that clears up the break on that line. You should set a break point above that line however so you can step into the command and watch for errors.
Make sure your access toggle (network/local files) is correct to access your RSL.
Sometimes a couple more lines of code for clarity can help a lot. Break up your getDefinitionByName line into 2 lines, maybe adding in a condition just so you can step through it and analyze exactly which part of that compound statement is going wrong. It could be as simple as your "new (...)" isn't being cast to a Sprite before you assign it so the line fails. So try:
var test2Class:Class = getDefinitionByName("ConnectionIcon_Orange") as Class;
if (test2Class)
var test02:Sprite = new test2Class() as Sprite; // cast
By stepping through it you'll see if your definition cannot be found (RSL or link issue) or if assigning it to a Sprite (test02) is the issue (perhaps it's a MovieClip or some other unexpected type and this fails).

Why can't I preview my motion tween on the timeline?

Hi,
I created a symbol and included a motion tween and it works perfectly (has the arrow), but when I try to play it on the timeline it doesn't play (you can only see the first frame of the symbol). When I test the movie the motion tween works fine. This never happened when I used Flash CS6 :S

Hi,
In Flash Pro, Movieclip Symbols do not show the animation nested within them on Timeline and the full animation can only be previewed using Test Movie.
If you change the Symbol instance type to Graphic from the Properties Panel, you will be able the preview nested animation as well. (Just make sure that the frame span where your graphics symbol is placed is long enough to show the entire animation).

Compiled Clip vs Live Preview

Hi
Does anybody know how to create a compiled clip that diaplay
when add to the stage. I explaine. The clip I build has an outline
to know the diaplay zone. This outline visible = false at the clip
ADDED event. It means that when I publish the Fla, the outile
desapear. My problem is that when I Compiled it to a Compiled CLip,
when I put it on the stage the ADDED is execute. So I can't view
the outline to position it to the stage.
I tried to used the Component properties and set the live
preview, I put a link to a swf that is exactly the preview of it,
but when ADDED to the stage the preview is jsut a small square of
10 px. Not the real preview in the external swf.
I need to have a Compiled Clip that is visisble on the sateg
and execute the outshape visible to false on publish only
Any Idea

you can preview but movieclips won't play. graphics will.

Preview of a movieclip

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