Re: FLASH: Connecting Lines

[John Dowdell]

At 9:06 AM 6/11/0, jayrope wrote:

>1. is there a simple trick to reconnect two lines, which are just the

>result of one line, where a part in the middle had been erased? if there�d

>be a solution only for fully horizontal or vertical ones - that�ll do the

>trick.

>

>2. when drawing an object out of lines with the line tool only in flash:

>how can i make ends of lines snap to each other without using a general

>snap to grid preference? i�m trying to repaint objects from bitmaps -

>it�ll be way easier to connect line ends with a kind of a snap....



It should just snap in both cases... the grid-snapping is distinct from the

regular object-to-object snapping.


(We can't snap to things in a bitmap, but once you draw a line atop a

bitmap then the next line can snap to it.)


jd





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