Actionscript Drawing

Hi,

I need to develop dialog boxes with handleers like below.

http://www.krishnakorea.com/sudhi/dialogue.bmp

It has four handlers to drag , resize, rotate and fifth handler which is out of box to rotate it.

I have no idea how start this development. Can anybody share a code snippet or idea to start with.

Thanks in Advance.

~Sudhi

well, I can get you a code for rotating, but resizing...I have no idea.

to rotate it, you would have a movie clip (whatever you want to use to rotate the box) inside another movie clip that holds the text box

we'll call it "rotate_mc"

we'll say something like this:

Code:

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onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this.onPress = function(){
this._parent._rotation = Math.atan2(Math.sqrt(Math.pow(_parent._x-_parent._x,2)+Math.pow(_parent._y-_ymouse,2)),Math.sqrt(Math.pow(_parent._x-_xmouse,2)+Math.pow(_ymouse-_ymouse,2)));
}
}

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I think that should work.

Tell me how it goes.

~Zippy Dee
Ted Newman

I just had another thought, which is that to do resizing, you could change the scale, but I think that would change the text size, too...

You could give it a try. I'll keep looking.

Dear Zippy,

Thanks for your response.

I have got idea how to resize, rotate, drag a movie on a stage.


But I dont get idea how to maintain the fifth handler, which is outside of box.

I must able to move that on stage .

nested movie clips?

I'm not quite sure what you're asking for.

do you mean just another rotation point that is not on the corners of the box?

Fifth handler means the one which is outside in below pic,

http://www.krishnakorea.com/sudhi/dialogue.bmp

If you observer picture , there are 4 handlers on the corner of rectangle and one in center.

The four handlers are to resize and rotate movie, the middle one is to move movie clip ( drag and drop) . If you observer the picture there is another one ( 6th handler on smalll circle shape) which outside of rectangle.

I need to move that as well to get differnt shape.

If you can share little code snippet , I will be delightful.

Thanks ,
Sudhi

Ah, so you want to be able to move that to around but have the rest stay still?

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Originally Posted by ZippyDee

Ah, so you want to be able to move that to around but have the rest stay still?

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Yes.absolutely

Hmm, well... I'm not exactly sure how you would do that with AS, but I know of a program that does allow drawing. It is very bad, I will say, but there are some good things (such as that). I would not say to use it over Flash, but if you have to get something, then go for it.

The program is 3D Flash Animator. There is a section on flashkit for it. Check it out.

www.3dfa.com I believe. You can get a free trial that allows you to export for 7 days.

if you need it, I can give you some codes to accomplish that so you can get it done in 7 days...

or just find a way to do it in AS (which I suggest would be better)

Check out this link you will get it all here
http://blog.greensock.com/

Try using flash's drawing ability like this:
you use: lineStyle(0x000000);
this to move without drawing: moveTo(x,y);
this to move with drawing: lineTo(x,y)
and this to make curves: curveTo(curvePointx, curvePointy, anchorPointx, anchorPointy);
also use clear() to erase everything.