I am not sure if its because of my lack of experience with 2D programs or not, however I am having issues with nested graphics and animation. I am normally a 3D user and as such grouping and parents are very key to how things are able to move. The problem I am having (just as an example because its hapening in multiple areas) is I have an arm of a character that is grouped 3 times. The upper arm is the parent, the lower arm is grouped inside the upper arm, and the hand grouped inside that, all of which were converted to graphics. I did this so the lower arm and hand follow the upper arm, and the hand follows the lower arm. This would be a common sense thing to do in 3D however when it comes to animating the hand, usually when double clicking a graphic it takes you to the same frame for the child as is selected with the parent (if the parent is on frame 20, double clicking the parent should take you to frame 20 of the child). I should also add that all graphics have the same frame count. The problem being when i double click, the child does not have the same frame count and throws off everything done to the child in relation to the parent's animation. I am not sure if its something i did, or a problem that exists inside flash. I have a deadline coming up and this has been a bad problem to have last minute so if anyone has advice on the matter, that would be greatly appreciated!
I also tried using the bone tool in flash, and besides no obvious way of re-adjusting the bones that are attached to the graphics (short of deleting them and trying again), this was difficult as well. I looked up ways to adjust the position and it seems you can only adjust the graphics themselves, not the bones. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal if it didn't start skewing the graphics out of place randomly.
I hope this isn't too confusing and I would certainly appreciate some feedback!