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.