Flash Animation 17: Controlling Movie Clips With Buttons and ActionScripting

This is going to seem a little strange, but now you're going to make a symbol out of the hat--twice. First click it, hit the F8 key, and create a Graphic symbol called "Hat". Then click the symbol on your stage, hit F8 again, and create a Movie Clip symbol with the Hat Graphic symbol inside it. I've named mine "HatShort", as I'm going to have a different movie clip for the tall snowman's hat and a different movie clip for the short snowman's hat, and I'll need to be able to differentiate between the two.

The reason for the double-symbol is because we're going to be using motion tweens inside the Movie Clip on its independent timeline, and we need symbols for that.