applying the same effect to many shapes

[rin67630]

Hi Group,
I have got rather frequently the need to apply the same effect to many shapes/buttons.
The intuitive solution would have been to select all the shapes, and modify the properties. Unfortunately Koolmooves does not seem to be that comfortable.

Has anyone got solution to make it faster, then applying individually the same effect to 32 shapes, and avoid so to make mistakes by forgetting one or more clicks?

Admittedly, doing it right the first time and copying the shapes is the better way, but people are just humans, and I see no reason to punish someone with 20 minutes of absolutely stupid work, when it could have been done in just a few clicks...

regards
RIN67630

[Bob Hartzell]

Applying effects to 32 shapes in a single frame is a bad idea. It could likely crash the flash player due to very high cpu useage. Plus it would be very hypnotic to the user to view 32 things moving independently.

Put all the shapes inside a movie clip and apply the effect to the movie clip.

[rin67630]

Applying effects to 32 shapes in a single frame is a bad idea. It could likely crash the flash player due to very high cpu useage. Plus it would be very hypnotic to the user to view 32 things moving independently.

Put all the shapes inside a movie clip and apply the effect to the movie clip.

In my case the effect was "stop movie" on hover and "release movie" on hover out.

[Bob Hartzell]

You have to edit button actions individually.

[rin67630]

You have to edit button actions individually.
Than that feature should stay at the top of a wish list.
Either : select several buttons and apply the properties as a bulk action (might be tough to program since dependencies must be taken into account)

Or, a bit easier: give a feature like "reapply last changes" to the new object.
(like the ctrl-y of WinWord)

That would make life easier and should not be a nightmare to program.

RIN67630