Re: FLASH: Isnt ther an easier way?

[Marc Hoffman]

At 02:53 PM 1/12/99 -0800, you wrote:

>Maybe Im missing something but isnt there an easy way to just draw a square

>with rounded corners?

>

>~Daniel


Depends what you mean by easy.


I would turn on grid and lock (magnet icon).  Draw a square by dragging

from one grid vertice, diagonally, to another that's maybe 16 grid squares

away.  Then switch to circle tool and draw a circle moving 4 or 5 squares

diagonally inward from the corner of the square.  Repeat this last step for

the other three corners.  Then use the arrow tool to select and delete

extra line segments.


Once you have this, make it a symbol, keep the library open, open

Flash>Libraries>Graphics.fla, and drag the new symbol into graphics.fla.

Then save the changes to graphics.fla.  The new symbol will then be

accessible from the Flash toolbar under Libraries>Graphics.  Do this with

all common elements you create and before long you'll have a nice big

toybox full of goodies :-)



Marc Hoffman

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