the first thing I am doing is to draw a shape. Object Drawing is selected. I have clicked the rectangle shape tool, have selected a color and fill. I drag across the stage and a rectangular line appears, but when I let off the keys, it dissapears. No shape, no stroke, no fill.Invisible, gone, disappeared.What the heck am I doing wrong?
View 12 Replieswhen drawing an object and using that objetc to mask another layer im having trouble making more than one object act as the mask. Eg I draw a circle and use the mask function to mask an image, works fine, then i draw some more geometry (in the same layer) and it will not mask as the first object did. Is there any way I can 'Join' them togeter to act as one big mask?
View 2 RepliesWhen I create drawing shapes I cant see any color or fill. I know there is a setting that need to be changed so I can see them. Here is a pick of what is happening on my screen
View 2 RepliesI need to draw on stage about 40,000 4x4 squares each a different color. The color is determined by an xml file. I have this working in as2 and have converted it to as3 the problem is the amount of time it takes to draw is causing cs4 to time out. I have extended the script time out to 60 seconds. In cs3 as2 it would draw the squares in about 15 seconds. I was hoping as3 cs4 would improve performance but seems to be the opposite. I have tried several methods such as adding children and various drawing variations. the bellow seems to work the best, but is still causing flash to crash.
ActionScript Code:
import flash.display.DisplayObject;
import flash.display.Graphics;
import flash.display.Shape;
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I have an app that displays XML as items. I am taking the createLayout() and trying to create a class that i can call from my custom component rather than having tons of code in the same file. The issue i am having is that when i call it, and run/debug, the display objects (text,links,date..) all have their visible property set to false. This happens even though I set the property to true in my code.
package com.ryancanulla.utils
{
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
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i want to be able to draw and object with just code so the user can draw objects on the stage.
View 1 Repliesi'm drawing objects with the api and for some reason they're coming out upside down.
View 2 RepliesI have a vector drawing object inside a parent movieclip.The drawing object is acting as a semi-transparent frame for and image on another layer. the problem is when I scale the parent movieclip the thickness of the drawing object is changing.I know that you can turn off scaling for lines and rectangles, but is there a way to do the equivalent for a vector drawing object?
View 2 RepliesI'm trying to make a short script in AS3 which will simply take some animated lines that are in a movieclip (pre-animated in library) and draw a 15px diameter circle around each vertex / point of the lines.
how to access the vertices of the lines in actionscript!
I have imported a lot of paths from an Adobe Illustrator document right into a flash file. The paths exists as Drawing Objects inside the scene. Using pure actionscript, how can I move a symbol following each of the lines, without using predefined Motion Guides.
EDIT: I've attached the Flash file, full of drawing objects.
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The question is: Are these drawing objects accessible through AS3 or I should convert them to symbols / whatever format necessary.
I have a little problem with counting all elements on stage. Flash, unfortunately is counting all objects on the stage without drawn objects (all shapes, including drawing objects, rectangles etc) all missed. Is there any way to count them?
View 2 RepliesThis seems like it should be fairly simple, but for some reason Im getting caught up when it comes to removing a layer from my drawing app, and when moving the layers up and down in the display list. My first problem is that when I do the (canvas.removeChild(layers[value]); it removes the child of the targeted layer, but it also removes the child of the objects before it? I think anyways.
The second problem is that my layerUp function works, but my layerDown does not, even though they are the same code? Confused I am indeed. I'm sure its fairly messy since Im just learning this stuff, so sorry for that too!
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I have a set of small circles(balls) on the stage, contained in an array. The array at different times in times in the program could have ballArray.length=1 or ballArray.length=125 or 48 or 0, etc.The balls float around the stage randomly too.I wish to have a function which will draw a line between all the points(balls or circles) in that array.So for example where there is 0 or 1 balls, there would be 0 lines drawn.Where there is 4 balls there would be 6 interconnections. as there would be six lines linking every object to each other object , exactly once per tick in the animation.[code]
View 3 RepliesHow can I draw objects relative to one another in AS3? For example I have a small object in the middle of a large object. Then I move the small object to the left (subtract x) but visually I see the large object move to the right and the small object stay still.
View 4 RepliesI've written a small program which detects my mouse movement and draws circles on the x- and y-position of the mouse.
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As you can probably see: after drawing a lot of circles the program slows down and the framerate makes the circles be placed with a large gap between them. I would guess that the program draws what is behind the current circle even though the user cannot see it?
I have created some graphics directly in Flash Cs4 using the drawing tools, making them 'drawing objects', yet they are pixelated when viewed in browsers. Within Flash they look crisp, but not when exported.
Here is a screenshot:
And again zoomed-in:
So I've got problem with some drawing objects inside movieclip in my flash file... Setting width and height of flash to match browser's w&h got my movie clip to get correct values, but unfortunately drawing objects inside of it are not scaled as movieclip. Those object are just random stripes that got some tween on it acting as somekind of preloader... All graphics are pulled from ai file, so no AS was used to manipulate them, just pure tweening in design mode...So if my stage w & h are lets say 720 x 50, graphics inside movieclip are 1600 x 900 which match my monitor's resolution.
View 1 RepliesI'm trying to make annotations on an image. I want to store all these annotations into a collection so that I can later remove or edit particular note(annotation).I'm creating a UIComponent instance for example markUp and doing
markUp.graphics.lineStyle(2, drawColor);
markUp.graphics.moveTo(x1, y1);
markUp.graphics.lineTo(x2, y2);
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I'm trying to draw a line between circles stored in an array. I have a button on the stage which adds another circle to the stage. My issue is I cannot draw a line between the most recent circle added to the array and the one that will be added next.
It is a bit complicated and I'm not an experienced programmer by any stretch of the imagination.
Anyway, here's my code:
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How does flash player handle objects when they are no longer on the visible stage? Is the graphical data still in memory? Does hittestobject/point consider them? Are enterframe and interval events still running?
In AS2 I would hold metaobjects (minimal x,y,width,height data) that would delete/create movieclips as the screen scrolled. Is this still a correct approach in AS3? If not, is there anything I can do to offstage display objects that improves efficiency, assuming around 400 are created initially?
I have my preloader which seems to be working correctly, however it only becomes visible as around 80%. So the page is blank up until then, then after that the loading bar is finishing and then goes to the rest of the site.
View 11 RepliesWhen I copy layers and edit the objects on stage, the objects also change in the other layer(s).
How do I duplicate a layer so that I can modify it with the objects in the old layer being unaffected? There must be a really easy way?
Just got started with Flash again after several years of not using it. I am familiar with the layout when I set it to "classic" but for some reason I can see the timeline area, but it is grey and I cannot create any frames or click anything in that area.
View 1 RepliesI have an external swf that contains a button that controls my main swf's timeline.I can get it to navigate fine, but as soon as it navigates, my external swf disappears, because my main swf is no longer on the frame my external swf was imported on.How do I get the external swf to stay visible along all the frames of my main swf's timeline?Here's the code I use to import the external swf:[code]
View 2 RepliesI just need to work on a roll out effect, I have it so if the mouse rolls of the button before the second image is up, it fades out. That is good. But when the second image IS up, the mouse rolls off the button and then the 2nd image fades out, but the 1st images shows up and also fades out. How can I prevent this from happening so it is always only the visible image that will fade out.
View 1 RepliesI have purchased this font "HY Zhong Hei Simplified Chinese J" and installed on my PC but it is not visible in FLASH CS5
View 8 Replieswhy is pasteboard visible in swf file ?
View 8 RepliesI'm trying to allow all things oitside of the stage peramiters to be visible in the browser screen so certain elements can be longer than the stage and still be shown Can't remember if it's a flash thing or an html thing.
View 6 RepliesI have one button, that when clicked should display several images, one at a time. At the minute they are all just coming on together, how do i seperate the functions so they come on individually, for example like bullet points, e.g click once and image1 appears, click again and image2 appears etc... so eventually all of the images are on screen, but they don't all just appear together, if that makes sense!
View 4 RepliesAll text (including dynamic and static text boxes) disappear while previewing in IE (IE8, IE7) but visible in other browsers (Firefox, Opera, Chrome). The movie URL [URL].
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