Re: FLASH: not-so-transparent hit boxes

[John Croteau]

Hi Marc,


> > It looks as if those shapes behind the type aren't truely

> >> transparent.??

> >> How can remedy this problem? Is there a better way to make hot spots?

> >The hot spots should be solid, not transparent and only in the hit frame

> >of the button.

> Although I confine my hot spots to the Hit frame, I often fill them with a

> transparency. Have you seen any negative results from doing that?

None, but it does waste bytes.

A solid fill without alpha or gradient is cheapest.

A simple alpha transparency doesn't cost much about 3 bytes or so.

But if you fill with a gradient you are talking more like 20 bytes or

more.



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