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Recently I found a little problem with Macromedia Flash MX 2004 Professional, using the 7.2 update, when you want to change the polystar tool settings, for example to draw a star, you get the following error message in the Output window:

Plugin tool script error in method notifySettingsChanged

I couldn’t find any solution for this in Google so I started looking in the Flash files and found some XML configuration files, in the “en\First Run\Tools” directory (I use the Windows version) there is a file called PolyStar.xml, “this must be related!” I automatically thought, so, I opened the file and found some lines of code.

I just changed the attribute defaultValue in the Style element to the number 1, from the list attribute you can see that 0 is a polygon and 1 is a star, restarted Flash and problem fixed.

Of course you should backup this file before making your changes, I hope it helps, see you around!