Using graphic symbols

Another symbol type available in Flash is the graphic symbol.…Don't let the name graphic symbol fool you;…You don't need to use any kind of special graphic to create a graphic symbol.…Almost anything can be made into a graphic symbol:…shapes, drawing objects, groups of objects, bitmap or vector artwork, even text.…For now, in a new blank FLA document, I am going grab my Oval tool and quickly…draw an oval on the Stage.…To convert it to a symbol, you may remember from previous videos that there's a…lot of ways to do this.…

This time I'm going to select my shape on the Stage and hit F8 on my keyboard.…I'll give it an intuitive name, so how about oval? And in the Type dropdown, I am…going to make sure that this is a graphic. I am going to click OK.…When I look in the library, there's the graphic symbol.…Notice the graphic symbol icon, which looks maybe like a piece of paper…with some shapes on it.…In the Property inspector, it tells me that I've selected an instance of the…Oval graphic symbol.…So, I can drag and drop multiple copies or instances of the graphic symbol to the Stage.…