Creating Animation > Representations of animations in the Timeline |
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Representations of animations in the Timeline
Flash distinguishes tweened animation from frame-by-frame animation in the Timeline as follows:
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Motion tweens are indicated by a black dot at the beginning keyframe; intermediate tweened frames have a black arrow with a light-blue background. |
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Shape tweens are indicated by a black dot at the beginning keyframe; intermediate frames have a black arrow with a light-green background. |
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A dashed line indicates that the tween is broken or incomplete, such as when the final keyframe is missing. |
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A single keyframe is indicated by a black dot. Light-gray frames after a single keyframe contain the same content with no changes and have a black line with a hollow rectangle at the last frame of the span. |
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A small a indicates that the frame has been assigned a frame action with the Actions panel. |
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A red flag indicates that the frame contains a label or comment. |
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A gold anchor indicates that the frame is a named anchor. |
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