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Flash Tutorial: Animation - Tweening

Step Four: Animating your symbol

1. Go to frame ten in the Timeline and right click. Select: Insert Keyframe
   This copy and pastes whatever is in frame 1 into frame 10.
2. Use the Selection tool to drag the symbol (in frame 10) to a new position on the main stage. This will not move the symbol in frame 1.
3. In the Timeline right click (Mac: Ctrl click) the Keyframe (black dot) in frame 1 and select: Create Motion Tween

   Note: In the TimeLine you should now see an arrow between the two keyframes. This will have a mauve background colour.

   
   How a Motion Tween should look in the timeline - An arrow with mauve background.
   
   
   
   There is no Tween here so there is no arrow or mauve background.
   
   
   
   A broken Tween has a dotted line instead of an arrow.

   Note: A Motion Tween has the same symbol in each end of the Tween or in each Keyframe. The most common reason for a broken Tween is that there is the symbol plus an addition object in one of the Keyframes. If you need a button or additional text or drawings these should be placed in a different Layer to the Tween. To create a new Layer click on the Insert Layer button:
   
   Remember: Tweens cannot be mixed with other objects.