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I am in the process of making a high score board and I want to share my work with others. I don't want to used saved graphics. I want this scoreboard to be created on the fly. This way I can give out code instead of a fla file. I know I can use lineTo, but that would take forever. Is there a program that will take vector art and translate it to some kind of code.
i guess you could create your own component and let users re-skin elements of it. I'm not sure i understand your logic, you have vector art created for a scoreboard, yet you want to get rid of that vector art and create a copy of it dynamically with lineTo's. Why do that when you have the vector art already?
Best way i can think of is the component way, supply a basic skinned component and let users change graphics, server address and all the other basic parameters for a scoreboard.
what about SVG
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svg
it´s a brother of XML and I have seen already some flash examples that can write & read those (almost perfect).
SVG can be exported from Illustrator, CorelDraw, inkscape,... except flash atm. and be viewed with opera or other browsers using adobe´s or other plugins
renderhjs thank you so much. sorry I didn't get a chance to thank you. I looked into svg and fond out that there is a class a to display svgs in flash. I was happy to find such a class. I modified the class to out put the code in a text field. I'm going to release my findings on this board. It is still in testing. I know this will change the way developers look at apps and games in flash. Now developers will be able to make super light weight games and apps. I was working on my flash app called 'xmlloader' witch is a score board; I used the modified svg class to redo the whole app and this is what I got.
Just copy and paste the code in a frame and be amazed
sort of
and a black background makes it look better.
xmlloader_v3.txt
Its about 530 lines of code, but I didn't write a third of it. The modified class did it. This app was 32 kb, with the class its now 5 kb. More than 75% of the size was shaved off. I know we all will benefit from this svg to flash api class.This class will make games and apps pure text.
thank you.
any update on that ??
it would be so very cool to use svg in a flash movie :D
I like the idea too,
a simple google search gave me this:
http://flash-creations.com/notes/sample_svgtoflash.php