Okay you stickpage members. I need you to answer these two questions and give me a way to fix my problem.
My problem is:
When I convert something to a symbol and press "Actions," in the box where you're supposed to put the code in says: "The current selection cannot have actions applied to it." I can apply actionscript to frames though, that works.
The questions are:
Why won't my flash let me apply actionscript to movieclips, graphics, or buttons? What can I do to make it work?

Thank you very much to anyone who can provide helpful feedback. :) 

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Okay you stickpage members. I need you to answer these two questions and give me a way to fix my problem.
My problem is:
When I convert something to a symbol and press "Actions," in the box where you're supposed to put the code in says: "The current selection cannot have actions applied to it." I can apply actionscript to frames though, that works.
The questions are:
Why won't my flash let me apply actionscript to movieclips, graphics, or buttons? What can I do to make it work?

Either you're double clicking it to edit it's properties specifically, for this you need to either go back to the scene.

-OR-

Make every other layer invisible, and click on the MC, Button, or Graphic itself and try to add actionscript to it then. Perhaps the layer is locked that the button/graphic/mc is on?

For number one that is definitely not the problem, number two isn't either I tried that.
Thanks anyway!

Flash has a tendency to dis-select movieclips when you open the actions menu. Just click the intended object once with the actions window open and you'll be set.

+ Graphics can't have code, only symbols like movieclips and buttons.

Or if you're using AS3, then you can't apply code to buttons/movieclips.
Also this:

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Graphics can't have code, only symbols like movieclips and buttons.

Actionscript 3 does not allow instance-based coding. You have to change the actionscript language to Actionscript 2 if you want to work that way.

However you're better off trying to learn AS3 before falling back to AS2, just to finish Scarecrow's sentence.

thaaaaaank youuuuuu

Quote from Bonk

Flash has a tendency to dis-select movieclips when you open the actions menu. Just click the intended object once with the actions window open and you'll be set.

+ Graphics can't have code, only symbols like movieclips and buttons.

doesn't work :(

And all this would work if I just used AS2?
yay I made my fist button animation!
http://www.truploader.com/view/420721