Flash drawing

I am teaching Flash in class. When you create one object of
different colors and place them over one another, the shape of one
object is deleted from the shape of the base object. My Flash does
not do this! I get a bounding box around my objects and if I try to
select the object it is placed in the drawing object mode by
itself. I have uninstalled the APP and re-installed but I keep
having the same problems. The same APP with the same license (
School site License) work well with this problem not in evidence.
Is this a fault of the APP or the OS. How do I fix it. I will soon
be upgrading to CS3 but I still need to teach my class!

object drawing mode in flash 8 & above prevent your
object erased by another object which overlapped it. You can
enable/disable it from the Object Drawing button, or press (J) key
when any drawing tool is active, before you draw.

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I think Flash drawing API is not working like it should...
Test this:
var W:Number = 12;
var H:Number = 12;
function drawRectExt():void
            this.graphics.clear();
            this.graphics.lineStyle(1,0xFF0000);
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drawRectExt();
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Hi again kglad!
first I want to thank you for your help with this..
now, I have tested your code with "intSqSide = 7;"
and it looks good at 100%, but if you zoom it you will see that it's not centered.
In numbers, with intSqSide = 7, the code looks like this:
function drawRectExt():void {
    this.graphics.clear();
    this.graphics.lineStyle(1,0xFF0000);
    this.graphics.beginFill(0xFFFFFF, 1);
    this.graphics.drawRect(0,0,12,12);
    this.graphics.endFill();
function drawRectInt():void {
    delete this.graphics.lineStyle();
    this.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000, 1);
    this.graphics.drawRect(3,3,7,7);
    this.graphics.endFill();
My last version was:
function drawRectExt2():void
            this.graphics.clear();
            this.graphics.lineStyle(1,0xFF0000);
            this.graphics.beginFill(0xFFFFFF, 1);
            this.graphics.drawRect(-0.5,-0.5,12,12);
            this.graphics.endFill();
function drawRectInt2():void
            this.graphics.lineStyle();
            this.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000, 1);
            this.graphics.drawRect(2,2,7,7);
            this.graphics.endFill();
I think it's logic to offset in X and Y direction the width/2 of the line. Because Flash draws the line centered, there should be an option to change that, like in Illustrator, where you can draw the stroke centered, aligned to inside or aligned to outside.
I don't know why Flash does not support this feature!
It's really frustrating to draw lines in this way. If I draw a box with 12px side and 1px contour, I want that box with those values! not 11px inside, and not with an offset of half pixel in each side!.

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I wanted to produce beautiful 256 color bitmaps like the
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hwa-jun yu wrote:
> Does anyone have some insights on exporting vector
drawings on Flash?
>
> I wanted to produce beautiful 256 color bitmaps like the
character flo in the
> Diner Dash series, but I haven't found any luck. My
bitmap is more jaggy and
> the outlines look terribly bold. When zoomed-in, it
looks even more jaggy. On
> the other hand, flo and other DinerDash's assets look
very good when zoomed-in.
>
> There is somehow should be a trick to produce such
quality drawing. Or,
> perhaps Playfirst creates DinerDash assets using other
drawing softwares? I've
> heard about Fireworks but have never tried it.
>
Must be the way you export them. Try exporting to PNG and
then process that PNG
is some other application.
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Hi again kglad!
first I want to thank you for your help with this..
now, I have tested your code with "intSqSide = 7;"
and it looks good at 100%, but if you zoom it you will see that it's not centered.
In numbers, with intSqSide = 7, the code looks like this:
function drawRectExt():void {
    this.graphics.clear();
    this.graphics.lineStyle(1,0xFF0000);
    this.graphics.beginFill(0xFFFFFF, 1);
    this.graphics.drawRect(0,0,12,12);
    this.graphics.endFill();
function drawRectInt():void {
    delete this.graphics.lineStyle();
    this.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000, 1);
    this.graphics.drawRect(3,3,7,7);
    this.graphics.endFill();
My last version was:
function drawRectExt2():void
            this.graphics.clear();
            this.graphics.lineStyle(1,0xFF0000);
            this.graphics.beginFill(0xFFFFFF, 1);
            this.graphics.drawRect(-0.5,-0.5,12,12);
            this.graphics.endFill();
function drawRectInt2():void
            this.graphics.lineStyle();
            this.graphics.beginFill(0xFF0000, 1);
            this.graphics.drawRect(2,2,7,7);
            this.graphics.endFill();
I think it's logic to offset in X and Y direction the width/2 of the line. Because Flash draws the line centered, there should be an option to change that, like in Illustrator, where you can draw the stroke centered, aligned to inside or aligned to outside.
I don't know why Flash does not support this feature!
It's really frustrating to draw lines in this way. If I draw a box with 12px side and 1px contour, I want that box with those values! not 11px inside, and not with an offset of half pixel in each side!.

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Will these images need to be setup for animation?
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AV8| wrote:
> I am about to embark on a major Flash-based e-learning
project, and have been
> deliberating over the ideal workflow for such a task.
Principally: would there
> be any significant advantage to using Illustrator for
all the technical
> illustrations and textual material in this project, and
to subsequently export
> all this into Flash to be enhanced with animation and
interactivity? Clearly,
> Illustrator is far more capable a tool for illustration,
and as such would
> allow be to create more sophisticated illustrations and
(arguably) work faster.
> But will this additional capability outweigh the
additional workflow
> complexity, and the inevitable problems that would
occasionally rise by this
> export/import process?
>
> Many thanks for any advice!
>
>

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Hi
By default Flash draw objects in Merge Drawing mode which automatically merges shapes that you draw when you overlap them. So turning off Merge Drawing mode / enabling Object Drawing mode will help resolve your problem.
When Pen tool is selected, select the Object Drawing button from the Options category of the Tools panel(bottom part of the panel), or press the J key to toggle between the Merge and Object Drawing modes. The Object Drawing button toggles between the Merge and Object Drawing modes.
For more details on Flash drawing objects please refer
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/Flash/10.0_UsingFlash/WSd60f23110762d6b883b18f10cb1fe1af6-7e87 a.html
Thanks!
ps: please mark this post as Answered if this is of help to you

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