yes, I've been exporting a bunch of animated gifs as buttons etc from xara to flash using ai3 and it works very well. These are collections of simple single-layer frames, so I group each frame contents before I export, so they appear as an orderly stack in flash. No good when I want all the layers of a complex animated figure to appear in the exact same layer sequence in flash which is why I too, use the merry-go-round method via cmx-cdr-fh8-swf.

It would be nice to be able to export layers direct with xaras new swf export but we'll see..

On a thoughtful note.. just at the moment I'm working in xara2 all the time as I know that the day xaraX arrives, like x1.5, I'll never see x2 again on my system, and this program has given me most of the smarts I've learned in web graphics, so I owe it a lot. Is there an e-ceremony one should perform when deleting a virtual zen master from the start menu?

Q.