ActionScript 3.0 :: Edit Pre-drawn Graphics From The Library?
May 30, 2009Is it possible to edit vector drawings made in Flash (and in the FLA's library) within Actionscript? For instance, to change the line width or line color?
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Mar 7, 2011I have an application that creates a chart dynamically. This chart has a lot of information plotted on it (4-6 stock trends). I want to be able to toggle some of those lines with a button. Each trend is drawn with something like this:
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Example: Tooltips that allow you to add a dashed-underline effect to the text. This would be an object that I can add to the project from the library, or reference an .AS file. It would automatically give the button an assortment of special appearance options (like a dashed-underline), and the hovering tooltip.
ActionScript 3.0 :: Edit A Movie Clip Class In Library?
Jul 2, 2011First off I downloaded the picture and bitmaps for my movie clip class online and it is now part of my library as type movie clip. Then from the library I was allowed to drag it into the stage then name an instance that I could use in my as3 code. This movie clip has some animation, so when the flash is running, the graphic would be "walking" the whole time for example. This class is called "Player"
Then I realized I wanted to encapsulate more of the code in as3, and to do that I wanted to add some methods and variables to this Player class.
I right-clicked the graphic in my stage and I found "edit class". It then brings up a completely empty class definition, strangely named "script1", not even properly named as the class itself.
When I edited it and named it properly and re-compiled, it looks like I basically just re-did a brand new class from scratch as my graphics were completely gone.
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Flash CS4 :: Library Path, New Instance Shown Without Graphics
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I don't know what I'm doing wrong but when I compile (export swf) the class gets loaded (I see the trace in the output window) BUT I can't see the graphics associated to MyClip. It seems MyClip.SWC only contains the code of that clip.
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ActionScript 3.0 :: 1119: Access Of Possibly Undefined Property Graphics Through A Reference With Static Type Flash.display:Graphics.
Oct 8, 2009i am trying to receive in my function as a parameter either a shape or a sprite and then access their graphics property, but this gives me an error:
Code:
public static function makeRect( obj:DisplayObject, ...
var g:Graphics;
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//1119: Access of possibly undefined property graphics through a reference with static type flash.display:Graphics.
ActionScript 3.0 :: Divinding Vector Graphics Into Vector Graphics
Jul 28, 2009I have a large vector drawing (imagine 5000x5000) that i want to break up into separate pieces. I know that I can convert this vector drawing into a bitmap and then use the copyPixels method to create many separate bitmaps of the different regions of the original vector drawing, but is there any way to subdivide it into movieclips that just contain vector graphics instead of a bitmap?The reason im dividing a big chunk of vector graphics into smaller pieces is for performance reasons, so flash would only render a small part of this big chunk at a time (only certain regions/voxels/subdivisions are rendered at a time). But bitmaps apparently take up a lot of memory and the system im using would take much less memory if these subdivisions could be preserved in their original vector graphics form.
I imagine I could use masks somehow to achieve this effect (for each subdivision, duplicate the huge image and mask only the region that the subdivision represents), but I dont know the performance costs of masking or if this will create other problems.So is there anyway to split up a movieclip of vector graphics into smaller movieclips of vector graphics the same way copyPixels can with bitmaps?
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Jul 19, 2009i've attached my flash file. I don't get why the path is not drawn if the movieclip is set ask mask. I would like to slowly reveal the text.
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On one had I would not have to update 2 applications everytime I change something, on the other, I would always have to recompile the library folder when I do the smallest changes to a component.
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Ideally I would like something similar to the functionality available in Flash, so a bezier curve sort of path that is subdivided into handles that can be dragged to define the path of the tween. If there isn't an existing library, then do you know of the functions that I would need to define (mathematical equations related to drawing curves etc)?
ActionScript 2.0 :: Share Child Swf's Library With Main File's Library?
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