Flash Tool - Fast to Symbol 2 (BETA)

Introduction:
Convert a selection into a symbol positioning the center of the symbol at the mouse current position and do that without a symbol dialog box, making the symbolizing process faster and painless.

This is a essential tool. Much better them the default symbol conversion that comes with flash!

How it works:
Just select what you want to convert to symbol, put your mouse where you want the middle of the symbol to be and hit the command (This means that this command NEEDS TO be a shortcut... I use F8).

By default Fast to Symbol will create a graphic, single framed symbol using the default Flash naming of "Symbol" in all of them. You can change those settings in the menu.

Using the menu:
If nothing is selected when you hit the shortcut for the fast2symbol command a menu will open with several options so you can configure your preferences.

Choose symbol naming: Enter the name that you want as a default name for symbols.

Choose symbol type: You can choose between Graphic (default), Movie Clip and Button. If type is not Graphic the symbol loop is ignored!

Choose symbol loop:You can choose between Single Frame (default), Play Once and Loop.

After convertion: Choose between Keep Selection (default) of the symbol or deselect the symbol. Very useful if you draw everything and then you do a pass of symbol conversions before you animate.

Change Tool: Choose between Don't Change (default) your tool or change it to Free Transform. Very useful if you are animating and need to create more symbols on the fly, tween them etc...

Paint closed drawings: Choose between Paint or Don't Paint (default) closed drawings. It paints only the lines and fills on the selection. Very, very, very useful for fast animatics, storyboards and some kinds of stylized animation.

Choose painting color: Choose between 6 default colours to use on the Paint Closed Drawings process.

Tips:
The best way to work with symbols is to try to draw things horizontally or vertically as much as possible... Do your symbols like that and will be much easier to deform them later.

Instalation:
This extension was tested in FlashCS3 only!
You will need Adobe Extension Manager to install this tool.
If you already have it just Download the 2.1 release and double click it.

To install a new release just download the MXP file, double click it and replace the old files with the new ones!

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Bugs:
Known bugs of the 2.1 release:
-Doesn't fully work in other versions of Flash (just in Flash CS3).
-If the frame being converted has a previous synced tween frame the conversion isn't made: 'unsync' or 'untween' the current frame before you use the tool.

known bugs of the 2.0 release:
-When using the paint feature and Fill color is set to "none" on the Flash toolbar panel: Crashes Flash!!!

If you found a bug or wish to request a feature for this tool, just leave a comment here!