Stuck in this Flash Thing

[NinjaGuy]

Okay, I'm very new to Flash, so I've been having a bit of a tiough time animating properly, and the current video I've been working on has taken almost 20 minutes to get possibly 8 seconds of screen time... My general problem is, Every once in a while, w/o locking the Layer, I just cant erase or draw over an image, and I made for sure that I was not in a new frame, but a keyframe. So, if anyone has any hints, please help me out.

[Digital-Terror]

Is it an object or a symbol you're trying to draw over?

[NinjaGuy]

At 7/2/09 12:23 AM, Digital-Terror wrote: Is it an object or a symbol you're trying to draw over?

Well, I'm not positive it's an object(still a noob) but I know I just drew it up, and I didn't change it to a symbol(woot I know how) should I have?

[Digital-Terror]

At 7/2/09 12:24 AM, ninja2142 wrote:

At 7/2/09 12:23 AM, Digital-Terror wrote: Is it an object or a symbol you're trying to draw over?

Well, I'm not positive it's an object(still a noob) but I know I just drew it up, and I didn't change it to a symbol(woot I know how) should I have?

Also make sure it's not on a separate layer.

If you select it with the cursour tool, and a blue box appears around it, then it's either a symbol or a group.

[NinjaGuy]

If you select it with the cursour tool, and a blue box appears around it, then it's either a symbol or a group.

Ahhh, then I think it's a group, because I see the blue box around it, how do I go about making it not a group?

[Digital-Terror]

At 7/2/09 12:34 AM, ninja2142 wrote:

If you select it with the cursour tool, and a blue box appears around it, then it's either a symbol or a group.

Ahhh, then I think it's a group, because I see the blue box around it, how do I go about making it not a group?

Modify>Ungroup.

[MichaelHurst]

And it (probably) is changing symbols to groups because you have some option (forgot the name...sorry) on. It's under the color selection when you are using the paint brush.

[NinjaGuy]

Modify>Ungroup.

Um... any other ideas, because the button is a light gray meaning I cant use it, and I think that means it's not a group...