Ending a Motion Tween

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When you use the Create Motion Tween command as described in the first exercise of this chapter, the final frame (Keyframe 10) has tween status. If you select that frame and check the Frame Property Inspector, you can see that the Tween property is set to Motion. That property tells Flash to create a motion tween between Keyframe 10 and the next keyframe. If you add new frames after Keyframe 10, Flash defines the new frames as motion tweens, to (Figure 9.10). To end a motion-tween sequence, you must set the Tween pop-up menu to None in the Frame Property Inspector.

Figure 9.10. When you use the Create Motion Tween command, the final keyframe of the tween has its Tween property set to Motion. If you add frames after that keyframe, Flash tries to continue the tween (note the broken tween line).

When you create a motion tween as described in the second exercise in this chapter, only the first keyframe and the in-between frames have tween status. The final keyframe has a Tween property of None. Any frames you add after the end of that sequence will have the default Tween property of None.

To remove tween status from a frame:

1. Create a new Flash document, and use the Create Motion Tween command to set up a series of tween sequences as you did in the first exercise in this chapter.

2. In the Timeline, select the last keyframe in the series of tweens.

   Flash tweens from one keyframe up to the next. Removing tween status from the final keyframe doesn't affect the previous tween sequence. Removing tween status from any frame in the tweened keyframe span, however, kills the tween.

3. From the Frame Property Inspector's Tween pop-up menu, choose None (Figure 9.11).

   Figure 9.11. To end a series of tweens created with the Create Motion Tween command, select the last keyframe of the series (top). Then, in the Frame Property Inspector, set the Tween property of the frame to None (bottom).

   

   Flash removes the color coding that indicates tweening from the selected frame.

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