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Adding a button crashes my program 1
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Don't understand why a lot of you users bother with Publish until you're ready to put your movie on the Web. That's when you need to bother with Publish.
While creating your movie, test it with Test Movie under Control. Each time you test your movie this way, Flash creates a *.swf from your project file (.fla) in the same directory that holds that .fla.
If you Save as your *.fla on your desktop for example, each time you use Test Movie, Flash rewrites over the previous .swf, now also on your desktop. You then just double-clik this *.swf's icon to test your movie outside of the Flash application.
Once all done with designing & testing, then Publish the html file that will hold & display your swf. That's all Publish does! It doesn't create the movie... It just writes up the html file for you!
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While creating your movie, test it with Test Movie under Control. Each time you test your movie this way, Flash creates a *.swf from your project file (.fla) in the same directory that holds that .fla.
If you Save as your *.fla on your desktop for example, each time you use Test Movie, Flash rewrites over the previous .swf, now also on your desktop. You then just double-clik this *.swf's icon to test your movie outside of the Flash application.
Once all done with designing & testing, then Publish the html file that will hold & display your swf. That's all Publish does! It doesn't create the movie... It just writes up the html file for you!
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Well oldnewbie, while I sympathize with your frustration for probably answering the same question over and over, the fact is the menu bar has been on the web and the client wanted to add another page. I understand how flash saves to a directory or folder and I haven't changed the path from where it was created. I also understand to test a movie and that publish just generates the html but none of your points comes close to helping explain why the program crashes. It crashes when I try to generate a swf file or a html file. Thanks anyway.
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That was going to be one of my last steps but from what I could read on the macromedia site and noting that noone else was really having this problem, I'm beginning to wonder if it isn't some sort of windows problem as opposed to a flash problem. I'm gonna try that and see. Thanks, you're in the woods but watch out for the bears. 
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