Re: FLASH: Isnt ther an easier way?

[Todd Purgason]

If you can get a tool like Freehand you can drag out a rectalgle and set the

rounding to whatever size you want with a diolog box and then just copy and

paste into flash.




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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