Re: FLASH: Isnt ther an easier way?

[Vincent Cocciolone]

Just a thought... for symmetrical shapes, such as this, rather than

repeating the steps for creating each corner, make one corner and then

copy, paste, flip and put it together. Just a little time saver!



At 06:41 PM 1/12/99 -0500, you wrote:

>One little addition to Marc's excellent advice: Chose View/Outlines so

>that you can see how well the lines of the square line up with the lines

>from the circles.

>It's a bit of a belt and suspenders approach but I find it helpful.

>

>Dorian

>

>Marc Hoffman wrote:

>> 

>> 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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