Motion Tween Problem (Total newbie Q)

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I’ve been playing with this for a day now and it’s driving me buggy.

I’m thinking this is too easy…but I’m stuck.

I have two rectangles of different sizes and colours. One is 16pixels longer than the other.

I have them set sot hat the shorter one is first in the timeline. I apply a motion tween. The short rectangle moves downward. It is an obvious transform as the colours are different.

I don’t want the rectangles to appear to move, though I want the “roll over effect” that the motion tween causes.

I don’t want the rectangles to be the same size.

Any advice? Is this even possible?

Thanks
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I think (if I’m reading this right) what you want to do is create a SHAPE tween, not a motion tween. To do this, click into the movie through all the layers until you get to the shape. Then set up the two rectangles and tween them on the timeline. Does that make sense? The shape tween will move the shape from one to the other (smaller to bigger)

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Hi,

I tried that, it didn’t work either. I have a decorative triangle attached to the rectangle so the shape tween fails.

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One work around I’ve come up with is to use separate layers for the triangles and the rectangles. I redrew the shapes so that the rectangles are exactly the same. This eliminated the “movement” when I applied the motion tween.

Still, it seems like I should be able to snap an object to a coordinate.

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