User input - Please help!

[umark]

Hi,

i have created a flash movie that shows the layout of a computer room. I want the user to be able to draw lines between these computers, hence showing they are connected.
How can i allow the user to to draw various lines between the computers and choose the colour of the line they want.


Thanks

[timothye]

you can draw with this .

_root.onMouseDown = function() {
	_root.lineStyle(5, 0xFFCC00, 100);
	_root.moveTo(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse);
	isDrawing = true;
};
_root.onMouseMove = function() {
	if (isDrawing == true) {
		_root.lineTo(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse);
		updateAfterEvent();
	}
};
_root.onMouseUp = function() {
	isDrawing = false;
};

cheers

[mkantor]

Timothye's method will work, but if you don't draw a perfectly straight line, will leave scraps lying around that you might not want.

If that's a problem for your application, try creating a new movie clip, say "lineClip" + i, for each line, then calling all the drawing commands on lineClip. Put lineClip.clear() at the start.

e.g.,

code:

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var counter = 0;

aComputer.onPress = function() {

    counter++;

    var startX = _root._xmouse;

    var startY = _root._ymouse;

    var lc = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("lineClip" + counter, counter);

    lc.onMouseMove = function() {

        this.clear();

        this.lineStyle(1, 0);

        this.moveTo(startX, startY);

        this.lineTo(lc._xmouse, lc._ymouse);

    }

    lc.onMouseUp = function() {

        delete this.onMouseMove;

		delete this.onMouseUp;

    }

}

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