Adobe Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Creating Shapes That Move As They Change

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Figure 10.19 To save yourself numerous trips to the

menu bar, you can assign the shape-tween property

to a range of frames and add keyframes and shapes

later. The initial keyframe must contain a shape, but

the later keyframes can be blank.

Figure 10.20 When you insert keyframes into a long

tween sequence, Flash breaks it into smaller tween

sequences. Until you place content in the keyframes,

the Timeline displays the dotted line in each span to

indicate a broken tween.

Creating Shapes That

Move As They Change

You can’t create shape tweens that automati-

cally follow a path, but you can move shapes ...