Movie Clips
Movie clips are an advanced feature of KoolMoves. It is a movie within a movie with its own frames. Movie clips are important because the properties of movie clips can be dynamically changed via action scripts.
There are two ways to crete a movie clip: press the new movie clip toolbar button (under the select arrow in the tools popup) or press the convert shapes to movie clip toolbar button (on the movie clip submenu drawer). There commands are also located under Shapes on the main menu bar.
In converting shapes to a movie clip, the selection scope -- this frame only, all frames, etc. -- determines the composition of the movie clip. If you select a number of shapes in the current key frame and select all frames for the selection scope, all those shapes in whatever frames they appear will be converted into a movie clip.
A selected movie clip symbol is similar to a regular symbol except for the blue/gray shading in the corners. Double-clicking on a movie clip symbol produces its properties dialog. Its properties are 1) transition effects and 2) onClipEvents utilizing action scripts. To reveal the composition of the movie clip and enter its timeline, press the Frames button at the top of the properties dialog.
In the Properties popup, you can create and assign values for parameters to the movie clip. These parameter asignments are exported in the swf to the top of the first frame of the movie clip. Parameters offer the opportunity for reuseable movie clips that can be customized by the end user.