I was trying to reproduce a training procedure for making an animation. The
procedure starts by adding a symbol to a frame, reproduces the frame and
changes the symbol a bit (making it a little narrower), and repeats that
process in a series of frames. When I tried this, any change I made to my
symbol (rotating it) for some reason made the same change in all of my onion
frames. So the frames are connected in some way, and my shape is actually the
same object in all of them. How do I make independent copies of the shape so
that I can make it change in each frame?

next to the onion frames button is an edit multiple frames button, make sure that is not on if you don't want to edit multiple frames at one time

Thanks!

It's not the "frames" that are "connected" - it's that the one and only
symbol you have is what is referred to as an "instance" of the object in the
library. Symbols are a powerful feature of Flash - you can reuse them as
many times as you like without bloating the file size of your SWF.
Now, if you have 100 instances of this 1 symbol on stage, then edit the
object inside of it - all the other 99 instances will be affected. What you
want to do is DUPLICATE (right click over it) and give it a new name. Then
edit the duplicate.

-chris

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>I was trying to reproduce a training procedure for making an animation. The
> procedure starts by adding a symbol to a frame, reproduces the frame and
> changes the symbol a bit (making it a little narrower), and repeats that
> process in a series of frames. When I tried this, any change I made to my
> symbol (rotating it) for some reason made the same change in all of my
> onion
> frames. So the frames are connected in some way, and my shape is actually
> the
> same object in all of them. How do I make independent copies of the shape
> so
> that I can make it change in each frame?
>