Representations of animations in the Timeline

Creating Animation > Representations of animations in the Timeline

Flash distinguishes tweened animation from frame-by-frame animation in the Timeline as follows:

	Motion tweens are indicated by a black dot at the beginning keyframe; intermediate tweened frames have a black arrow with a light-blue background.
	Shape tweens are indicated by a black dot at the beginning keyframe; intermediate frames have a black arrow with a light-green background.
	A dashed line indicates that the tween is broken or incomplete, such as when the final keyframe is missing.
	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.
	A small a indicates that the frame has been assigned a frame action with the Actions panel.
	A red flag indicates that the frame contains a label or comment.
	A gold anchor indicates that the frame is a named anchor.