Obviously all interactivity will be lost such as roll overs or buttons, but anything moving (such as your circle across a page) will be exported just fine.
the problem with scripted animation in Flash is that it usually takes place on just one frame using the framerate as a kind of timed execution loop. The problem is that Flash exports to gif by converting each frame in Flash to a frame in the gif, and if there's only one frame and the movement on it is scripted, it won't export, at least not in my experience.
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