Many shapes, one gradient fill

In Illustrator CS4:
I need to fill 20 circles with one common grad fill... so that the 1st circle is dark to the 20th as lightest (NOT each individual circle getting it's own gradient).
I thought this would be easy (clipping mask) but no.
Any ideas?
Thanks!

Right, Mike.
But unless you group them all together somehow you're left manually selecting each one every time you want to modify the gradient, if you've unselected them and come back later. Probably best to get them all grouped together for easy re-selection.

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insight from
anyone who digs math.
I've been working with gradient fills lately in AS2, which
means I've
been reading through related entries in the ActionScript 2.0
Language
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to boil it down to the essentials). The Drawing API draws a
square and
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represent width and
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arbitrary (I
guess), because the same matrix can be used for a radial
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mind that for now.
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Payer 8 and
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looking for
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respectively. That seems to correspond to the conventional
graphics matrix
a b u
c d v
tx ty w
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that tx and ty
would correspond to x and y. After tracing the properties of
the matrix
variable (after the createGradientBox() call) it seemed
reasonable to me to
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a:a b:b c:0
d:c e:d f:0
g:tx g:ty i:1
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with this (back
to a single line):
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a:0.086316745750311,
b:0.086316745750311,
c:0,
d:-0.086316745750311,
e:0.086316745750311,
f:0,
g:200,
h:200,
i:1
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properties of this
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100);
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but it's
super-heavily banded. Not really a gradient at all, but more
like four
colored stripes -- red, blue, red, blue -- from upper left to
lower right.
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David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

GWD,
> I couldn't leave it alone. I came back to it.
Ha! I know that feeling. :)
> matrix = { a:200, b:-100, c:0, d:-100, e:200, f:0,
g:200, h:200, i:1 };
>
> gets close, but its still not quite right. I think the
difference here is
> that skew is expressed differently.
That makes sense. And yes, that comes pretty close.
> I found a better explanation here:
>
http://www.flashdevils.com/tutorials.php?id=142
Thanks, GWD! That helps a lot.
> [I would be inclined to use the other approaches if I
could get
> away with it.]
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mention it,
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why. Thanks for
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