Help With Animation

**ChrisBro** · 23 March 2010, 05:18 PM

Hello Everyone

OK I have prodiced a header flash fro my sie dam good to if I dare say so myself

Anyhow I neglected to use a blank rectangle at the back of it with an outline as a canvas which I wanted to do, it consists of 34 frames I think I can add the canvas by drawing a rectangle with an outline then sending it to back on each frame all 34 of them!!!!!

My question does anyone know an easier way of doing this? Was thinking maybe something to do with repeating objects? Have tried but not really getting anywhere so before I begin the extremely mundane task of rectifying my error on every frame lol thought it was worth an ask here

Thanks in advance

Chris

**covoxer** · 23 March 2010, 05:33 PM

No, it's simpler. Create new frame, place the background on it. Then set it a Background property (Frame properties/Frame/Background or simply the B checkbox in the frames gallery), and set it's display time to 0. Then move it to the first position. That's it.

**ChrisBro** · 23 March 2010, 06:03 PM

Thanks John

That worked brilliantly you guys have thought of everything

Upon preview it is giving me an error

Frame 35: Unpaired rectangle named "background"

but work fine after clicking OK, anything I should be concerned about?

Thanks

Chris

**covoxer** · 23 March 2010, 06:38 PM

No. Just remove the name from that rectangle if you don't want to see the warning again. It looks for the object with the same name on the following frame to generate tweening. And as it finds none, it assumes that you might forgot to create it, or that you had applied the wrong name etc.