In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776

"The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

"( We hold these truths to be self-evident: )

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

Elementary shape tweening

I meant to post this in flashdesigners. When I realized I'd misposted it, I was going to delete it from here, but wtf.

I'm a Flash novice animating cartoons with Flash 5 (Education Version). There's something to shape tweening, or at least shape hints, that I'm just not getting. In the files linked below, watch the hanging tail of the triangle's scarf between the last two tweens on the timeline. Instead of the corners following the paths I'd moved them in the keyframe, the entire shape flips on its vertical axis. All the shapes in the file including the scarf tail behave as I meant them until this. When I added shape hints nothing changed, suggesting I'm not attaching them properly. When I added them, I made sure I had the layer in question selected and the shape in question selected, including strokes and fills. I had Snap To Objects ennabled. Do those things matter? Did I set them backwards? Is there a step I'm missing entirely*? Thanks for any suggestions.

http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/shapetweening.05e.fla
http://arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/shapetweening.swf

* This has happened to me before. When I couldn't figure out motion tweens from the Lesson on the Help menu, I found a tutorial on the web, and finally only figured it out by combining the steps of both sets of directions.