Drawing Dynamic straight lines

[Andeh]

Hey!

My question is regarding drawing a straight line, just like on the flash game Line rider. I need to be able to create a line by dragging it with the mouse.

Any help would be appreciated

Regards

[nunomira]

hi,

Would it be something like:

this.onMouseDown = function()
{
    var n:Number = this.getNextHighestDepth();
    var mc:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("mc" + n, n);

    var x0:Number = _xmouse;
    var y0:Number = _ymouse;


    this.onMouseMove = function()
    {
        mc.clear();
        mc.lineStyle(1);
        mc.moveTo(x0,y0);
        mc.lineTo(_xmouse,_ymouse);

        updateAfterEvent();
    };
};

this.onMouseUp = function()
{
    delete this.onMouseMove;
}; 

[Andeh]

Hey, thanks so much for your reply!

It works perfectly on the main timeline in a new flash file, but when I implement it into my project (inside a movieclip on frame 2 - "Activate pen" sort of thing) it draws a line, and when I go to draw another it deletes the previous.

Is there a way of fixing this?

Regards

Andeh

[nunomira]

hi,

I'd say that you have some other code interfering with this one as this should work (on its own) inside any MovieClip, on any frame.
This is because I used this.getNextHighestDepth(); to create a new MovieClip, which means that the previous one is never removed.