Why does my gradient look terrible in Flash?

I'm trying to recreate a nav bar mock up in Flash that I
mocked in Photoshop. The background of my nav bar in Photoshop has
a nice smooth gradient going from black to red to black, but when I
pull out a rectangle in Flash and add a gradient to it, the
gradient looks very choppy and doesn't have a smooth transition
from one color level to the next. Is it just that Flash doesn't
make as good of gradients as Photoshop or is there some kind of
quality setting that I have to bump up in Flash? Thanks.

what is the display settings for your monitor? sounds like
you have it set to 16 bit color.
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xslamx wrote:
> I'm trying to recreate a nav bar mock up in Flash that I
mocked in Photoshop.
> The background of my nav bar in Photoshop has a nice
smooth gradient going from
> black to red to black, but when I pull out a rectangle
in Flash and add a
> gradient to it, the gradient looks very choppy and
doesn't have a smooth
> transition from one color level to the next. Is it just
that Flash doesn't
> make as good of gradients as Photoshop or is there some
kind of quality setting
> that I have to bump up in Flash? Thanks.
>

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