About representations of animation in the Timeline

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

• A black dot at the beginning keyframe indicates motion tweens; a black arrow with a light blue background indicates intermediate tweened frames.

  

  
  

• A black dot at the beginning keyframe indicates shape tweens; a black arrow with a light green background indicates intermediate frames.

  

  
  

• A dashed line indicates that the tween is broken or incomplete, such as when the final keyframe is missing.

  

  
  

• A black dot indicates a single keyframe. 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 is assigned a frame action with the Actions panel.

  

  
  

• A red flag indicates that the frame contains a label.

  

  
  

• A green double slash indicates that the frame contains a comment.

  

  
  

• A gold anchor indicates that the frame is a named anchor.