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[scarfman]

Does anyone here know: In Flash, can you swap a layer's position mid-movie; or, if something must pass both behind and in front of something else, must you make a separate layer for each pass?

I'm recreating in Flash one of the animated cartoons I made in FantaVision on the Amiga almost twenty years ago (except with Arthur and Morgan in it instead of the Doctor and the Master).

Back in those days I had so much fun doing those (though they move so slowly that nowadays even I find them unwatchable) that I hated to get up from my chair, at least while a project was in progress. Now, for the past two weeks that I've been working in Flash again, every session has ended because I've said to myself, "I think that's all for now." I've been wondering why that's different, particularly since I believe I picked Flash up again because my current ongoing projects haven't been keeping me sufficiently occupied. I wonder whether I've gotten so afraid of change* in my middle age that I don't even want to go back to something that was once loved and familiar. I wonder whether I just tire more easily now. I wonder whether the prospect of having my animations seen by more than four people is scaring me Nawww.

This morning I was working on the new version of the old cartoon when I had to get up to get ready for work. I didn't want to go. That felt good.

* By the way, qtrhorserider is still working on passing the bar. But she's got a full time job now for while she studies, so things are getting better.