LineCap=none ,still rendered in _width (bug?)

[McUsher]

Ok,
i don't have questions often, but as this might be a bug,
i am out of ideas:

I have movieClip with a square in it, which has horizontal lines.
The caps of the lines i set to "none" as i will need to set/get
the width of that square without those bloody round caps
(was giving me headaches in the flash versions b4 8ball).

But even, if the caps are set to "none" the round ending
will render into the width of the MC the lines are in.
Is this a Bug, or is this working as inteded ?

Just incase i expressed myself unclearly i provide a fla.

Any other workaround, but setting mc._width = widthWanted+lineThickness?

[keyone.it]

I get it too, it's probably one of those cheap workarounds that Macromedia boys like taking... probably to cut out the rounds, the engine masks the lines (just guessing), or something else really dirty.

That's what I hate of Flash, it's just cheap, but it comes with and expensive pricetag!


Ascanio.

[cancerinform]

This solves it:

import flash.geom.Transform;
var trans1:Transform = new Transform (test1);
var trans2:Transform = new Transform (test2);
var trans3:Transform = new Transform (test3);
var rectObj1:Object = test1.getRect ();
var rectObj2:Object = test2.getRect ();
var rectObj3:Object = test3.getRect ();
t1.text = "_width="+rectObj1.xMax;
t2.text = "_width="+rectObj2.xMax;
t3.text = "_width="+rectObj3.xMax;

[cancerinform]

Forgot to eliminate the top 4 lines. I had those because of another method:

trace(trans1.pixelBounds);

which gives the same as _width.

[McUsher]

Ok, that solves it for reading, good idea, i didn't know that getRect()
will get the correct values without the caps..

But mainly i want to set the width, not including the caps of course
And i don't see the new Rectangle class helping me here... but maybe i
worked too long to see the solution

[Edit] i could of course draw the obects by code, but
that will not comply with my coding, in which all
graphics are in the fla file.

[cancerinform]

I don't know the solution to that.

Sometimes we are too much into AS . If you convert the lines to fills everything is fine. How about that? Nobody will notice.

[Ray Beez]

Are you publishing to ver 8?

[McUsher]

Yes, i am publishing to FP8, that is why i posted in this sub-forum..

And @ cancer yeah, it is the only solution that works perfect, but
it is just another workaround... I used that quite a lot.

[cancerinform]

Here is your formula to deal with that, for example if you want to increase size etc. wFactor derived from the original drawing size will be the factor you need to use to manipulate the size.

var rectObj1:Object = test1.getRect ();
var rectObj2:Object = test2.getRect ();
var rectObj3:Object = test3.getRect ();
var wFactor1:Number = test1._width/rectObj1.xMax;
var wFactor2:Number = test2._width/rectObj2.xMax;
var wFactor3:Number = test3._width/rectObj3.xMax;
if (wFactor1>1) {
    setProperty (test1, _width, 350*wFactor1);
    trace("w1: "+test1._width);
} else {
    setProperty (test1, _width, 350);
    trace("w2: "+test1._width);
}
if (wFactor2>1) {
    setProperty (test2, _width, 350*wFactor2);
    trace("w1: "+test2._width);
} else {
    setProperty (test2, _width, 350);
    trace("w2: "+test2._width);
}
if (wFactor3>1) {
    setProperty (test3, _width, 350*wFactor3);
    trace("w1: "+test3._width);
} else {
    setProperty (test3, _width, 350);
    trace("w2: "+test3._width);
}

t1.text = "_width="+test1._width;
t2.text = "actual _width="+test2._width;
t3.text = "_width="+test3._width; 

However, the value for getRect() is not changing, since it measures the actual fla-size width, so you cannot get the new getRect().

[McUsher]

I think that is a good (exact) workaround.. gotto remember that one
Maybe i put it in straight into my code later