Re: FLASH: Tween glitch?

[Marc Hoffman, Poison Dart Frog Media]

At 04:13 PM 1/3/00 , you wrote:

>a strange thing happening when I do this

>sometimes, though, and I don't know if it is supposed to happen or what.

>A couple of times after using this short-cut method, an added symbol

>will appear in my library, called "Tween 1" or "Tween 2". It seems to be

>just a graphic


  This is Flash's way of converting a non-symbol into a symbol so that it 

can be properly motion tweened. If you want a shape tween (which works with 

non-symbols only), you need to go the old route of selecting frame 

properties, then tween then shape tween.

Marc Hoffman


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