Re: FLASH: Programatic Bezier Animation Wizard - Download now!

[Peter Santangeli]

Well.... Yeah. You could do it.


begin war story...


I put together a demo once of true draggable windows done with Flash,

to the point of when you started dragging the window, the contents

disappeared, and were replaced by lines that outlined the window. I

wanted the routine to be generic (work with any window size), so

I had to have arbitrary length lines generated in ActionScript. The

answer was to create a very tiny (1 pixel by 1 pixel) fill (not

line), then scale it in one direction by the length that I wanted

it to be.


...end war story.


To do a graphing calculator, you'd have to also rotate the line

in the direction you wanted it to go.


Note that I've also used this kind of technique with Generator. I

created a template that used the scaling to turn a spreadsheet

output from Microsoft Project into a Gant chart (complete with

current date bars, progress bars, etc, etc).


Pete Santangeli

Macromedia


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Subject: RE: FLASH: Programatic Bezier Animation Wizard - Download now!



> What actionscript command actually makes a line be drawn? I am wondering

if

> it is possible to program a flash graphing calculator? Could a user input

> numbers into an equation and see the results graphed on the screen. I

don't

> mean anything as complex as a real graphing calculator like a TI but set

to

> a few simpler equations. LIke circles, lines, parabolas, etc.....

>

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From: ownerchinwag [dot] com [ownerchinwag [dot] com]On">mailto:ownerchinwag [dot] com]On Behalf Of Branden

> Hall

> Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 2:42 PM

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To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Subject: FLASH: Programatic Bezier Animation Wizard - Download now!

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>

> As promised earlier, here is a full on-line wizard for creating

programmatic

> animations over bezier curves! :-) For when a tween just won't do it,

bezier

> it! The sample makes an SWF thats all of 2K, yeah baby!

>

> http://www.figleaf.com/development/flash4/bezierWizard.swf

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