Has this feature been suggested before?
Yes, sorry. After re-checking I found a similar post (of myself!) describing this.
Don’t know how to delete this post…
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
No
Describe the solution you’d like
When I make a clip and create some copies the copies will not reflect changes that I make to the original clip. This behaviour is fine, but sometimes I want the changes to the original to be reflected in the copies (just like a “component” in CAD).
Example:
If I have 100 trees on the stage that do not move with the wind and I make a change to the “original tree” so it moves, I don’t want to manually copy this new treetype to all the other trees. I want “component behaviour” so the changes are reflected to all the trees of the same “type”.
Describe alternatives you’ve considered
The only alternative solution I can think of is to replace the “old” copies by the new one by hand.
Additional context
In Adobe Flash this behavior was default for a movieclip.
Extra functionality in flash related to this behavior:
If the Movieclip came from a library file and you placed a new version of this Movieclip into this library file, this new version would be visible in all .swf files that used this library file.