ActionScript 3.0 :: Programmatically Draw Arrowhead?
Jun 4, 2010how to draw an arrowhead facing either left or right programmatically with as3? The arrowhead should be a filled triangle pointing either left or right.
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If it matters, I'm using Flash/Actionscript, but any system that has some sort of turtle graphics engine should work pretty much the same way: I'm working with that standard flipped Cartesian grid (y increases downward), x and y coordinates, the ability to move a pen, draw lines and draw curves.One caveat: Flash only allows me to draw 3-point bezier curves -- start point, control point, end point.
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