Painting with Actionscript

Hi all,
I have some pictures of the interior of a house and I want
the user to change the color of the walls. When I try to fill some
areas of the image with a specific color I get some "unreal"
results, and the final picture is not neat. I wander if there is
some clever way to change the color leaving the lighting, shadows
etc as they are to have a more realistic result.
I'll appreciate if someone have any useful links or
guidelines for this, thanks in advance

jgeorgiou,
> there is an EXCELLENT desktop application I found in
>
http://www.crownpaint.co.uk/expcolour/create/
following
> the link "Dowload My Rooms in Colour Tool", but it's
> not made with Flash.
I didn't download the app, but I did watch the Flash
demonstration.
> Is it possible to have this result with ActionScript?
The demo showed a user clicking around a photo to define
anchor points,
then filling the enclosed shape with a color. This sort of
thing is indeed
possible with ActionScript, and when combined with blend
modes might give a
reasonably "realistic" rendering.
What you're after is a collection of MovieClip class methods
known as
the Drawing API. Look up MovieClip.lineTo() in the
ActionScript 2.0
Language Reference and you'll find the others. :)
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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How can you register an instance of an object with actionscript so that it's id or name value is accessible?
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                //trace("mxmlButton="+this["asButtonName"].label); // returns runtime error: ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property asButtonName not found on TestId and there is no default value.
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Hi Dan,
It is a very rare occurrence when I miss not being able to access an object (object property, really) using the ["name"] notation for objects created using actionscript.
In MXML the compiler is conveniently adding an attribute to the class with the same name as the id, so you can conveniently refer to it using the [] notation. While we explicitly specify an application container to use, the MXML compiler creates a custom container which is a derivative of the base container and to that it adds properties for the children declared in MXML. I guess it also effectively calls "addElement" for us when the container is being constructed.
Your example assumes that using "addElement" to add the button to the application container is the same as declaring a variable (ie property ). It isn't, so there's no point in looking for an property of the name "as3Button" using the [] notation, because it doesn't exist. The container is managing a collection of children in it's display list and that's not the same as being accessible as properties of the container.
Generally speaking, accessing properties using the ["name"] syntax isn't necessary.
Paul
[edit: you may wonder why "addElement" doesn't conveniently also add the "id" attribute to be an property of the container class. Unfortunately, it can't because the container class would need to be dynamic and it's not. A further complication would be that adding properties at runtime would invite naming clashes at runtime with associated mayhem. MXML can do this because the compiler generates the class and can trap name duplication at compile time.
Great question, BTW.
-last edit changed my "attributes" to be "properties" in line with Adobe's terminology]

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http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=72&catid=75 9&threadid=1407833&enterthread=y

Thanks Arun!
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:44:10 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How can I use LCCS with ActionScript 3 and Flash CS4?
Hi,
Welcome to the LCCS world.
Please refer to the SDK's sampleApps folder. There would be an app called FlashUserList. The app demonstrates how LCCS can be used with Flash CS4. Its a pretty basic app, but should help you moving.
We are trying to improve our efforts to help developers in understanding our samples. Please do let us know if we can add something that would help others.
Thanks
Arun
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I am stuck with the ActionScript here. I have a very complex animated flash movie for eLearning. These contain around 10 to 15 frames. In each frame I am having multiple movie clip symbols. The animation has been created using a blend of scripting and also normal flash animation.
Now I want to create pause and play functionality for the entire movie. I was able to create the pause function but when i try to play the movie it behaves very strange.
I was able to develop the pause functionality by refering to the below mentioned links:
http://www.unfocus.com/2009/12/07/stop-all-child-movieclips-in-flash-with-actionscript-3-0 /
http://www.curiousfind.com/blog/174
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import flash.display.DisplayObjectContainer;
import flash.utils.Timer;
import flash.events.TimerEvent;
import fl.transitions.*;
import fl.transitions.Tween;
import fl.transitions.easing.*;
import fl.transitions.TweenEvent;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
stop();
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        for (var i:int = 0; i < n; i++)
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var mc1:MovieClip = this.mascotAni;
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var sh:Number = stage.stageHeight;
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mc1.height = sh/3;
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mc1.y = (stage.stageHeight/2)-(mc1.height/2);
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stage.removeEventListener(Event.RESIZE, mascot);
mascot();
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mc1.width = 113.45;
mc1.height = 153.85;
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Good Lead - Thanks.
I learned that having skinned components (which this uses)
keeps this preloader from working properly. The results were
unstable. It looks like a great little preloader for other things
though.
I also learned that it's a problem that others have
encountered and that hasnt been solved yet...
...."hello Adobe?"
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JL

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or other issues can make for surprises. I think it is good practice
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