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Note: The line used for the curve must be made invisible for the animation to work.

Finally you can also tween outline thickness between one key frame and the next, but
only for shapes with a constant outline thickness (ie. It will not worked for shapes with a
stroked outline).

Color Transforms—Animating Color Changes

This is what you can and cannot do with color transforms in Xara Designer Pro X Flash:

• You can animate simple flat color changes of objects from one keyframe to the next.
• You can change the line color independently of the fill color.
• You can change photo contone colors.
• You cannot adjust the position of gradient fills.
• You can use RGB, HSV or CMYK colors. These are all converted to RGB colors when
exported to Flash (which is the only color model Flash supports).

URLs in Flash

To make an object in your Flash animation a clickable link, just select the object you want
to make clickable and select "UTILITIES" > "WEB PROPERTIES ("Ctrl + Shift + W").

Enter the required URL. (If you require the link to open in a new browser window or
browser frame select the target web frame by selecting from the ‘OPEN LINK IN’ dropdown
menu).

If you want to make text clickable select the RECTANGLE SURROUNDING OBJECT option.
This ensures those that viewers of your Flash animation can click anywhere over the text
(rather than just on the actual letter shapes).

Making the whole animation clickable
In the "ANIMATION PROPERTIES" > "FLASH OPTIONS" tab you can set a URL to apply to a
whole animation. This is useful for banner ads where you want a click on any part of the
animation to go to a given web address.

clickTAG
clickTAGs are often used by advertising networks. Rather than hard-coding a URL into a
Flash animation, the clickTAG allows an organization to insert their own URL into the
animation, which is particularly useful for tracking advertising clicks.
If you need to use this feature, check the clickTAG option.