- The type tool in Animate has Three different states
- Static - All letters turn to images
- Dynamic - All text remains as fonts (and will not be displayed if the user doesn't have the font installed)
- Input - Can be modified by the user and requires some coding
- Keyframes
- determines where actions start and stop
- scripts can be applied on Keyframes
- sound can be placed there
- they can be named
- tweens can be applied
- Frames fill the rest
- Tweens are represented by solid arrows
- Broken tweens represented by dotted line