Flash :: FPS - Tool Bar

Brush Tool And Eraser Tool Troubles
i've been using flash for over a year and a half and i've NEVER came across this problem.

when i go inside a movieclip to edit it, it won't let me use the brush tool or eraser.

unless i draw a circle around the area i want brushed or erased.

what the crap did i do?

keep in mind that it works normal when i'm on the main timeline.

thanks for any help!

-nolen

Fill Tool - THE MOST ANNOYING TOOL EVER
I'm trying to draw stuff, but the fill tool never works when I want it to. I try to fill something in, so I mess with the options till it works, but sometimes.. I CANT FILL IT IN AT ALL! Soo, then I have to do it manually which is really annoying. I CANT WORK LIKE THIS! Is there any way to make it not stupid?

Line Tool/ Pen Tool
hello all i am obviously new to flash and my question is this. i want to be able to draw lines with the line tool and pen tool that do not have rounded edges. i want the edges to be flat with two sharp corners. is this at all possible using the line tool or pen tool? thank you.

Pen Tool
You know when you draw something with the pen tool, and then scale it smaller the lines start to bunch up and mess up the drawing.
Is there a way of keeping that from hapening?
Thanx!!!

The Pen Tool
When I use the pen tool in Illustrator, I have the option of creating lines, where the ends are sharp and boxy.

When I copy/paste into Flash 5, the ends of the lines turn soft and rounded. Is there any way to get the ends sharp and boxy?

If you need clarification of what I mean, I can send you a *.gif by email.

Thanks.

Using The Pen Tool
When I use the pen tool in Illustrator, I have the option of creating lines, where the ends of the lines (they call 'caps') are sharp and boxy.

When I copy/paste into Flash 5, the ends of the lines turn soft and rounded. Is there any way to get the ends sharp and boxy? I haven't used Flash 6 yet, but has this feature been added to Flash 6?

If you need clarification of what I mean, go to this page:
http://www.penque.com/tutorial.gif

Pen Tool
I have tried Preferences--> Editing Pen Tool--> Smooth Curves to draw a very curvy lines... it doesn't help at all... at last the curvy lines that I drew would change to staight lines? Why??? How to solve this problem?

FTP Tool
Hi

Anyone recommend an excellent FTP tool. I have been using FTP Explorer for a while now but it isn't really that good but I have just never got around to doing anything about it.....???

Pen Tool
Does anyone have any tricks on using the anchor feature in the pen tool? I find it if not a user friendly as it is in Flash.

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Pen Tool
Hi I'm using the pen tool to edit some think black lines and just wondered if I can change the colour of the pen tool as I am finding it hard to see what state I am in.. eg when it is hoving over a point I can't see what state it is displaying as the pen is black and so is the line.
cheers
Frances

What's The Right Tool For The Job?
I was thinking about a app where a user could take their picture load it to the website and then see what they would look like in a clothing item, like a shirt. Now I'm imagining you would need sliders on the shirt to make it size correctly, to the picture, also the shirt whould then have to be draggable. Is this something thats do able in FLASH or is there another app out there that might be better suited?

[F8] Pen Tool
Hail doods.
I wanna ask whether it's possible, to change the manipulator of Pen tool in Flash 8. Like in Photoshop, when you hold ALT and click you can adjust pen tool's wave. Cuz here's what I wanna do.

I want to continue the curve, as indicated with red line, not as green makes me.

Tool Tip
I have serious of buttons. Those buttons are done as icons without names. so is that possible in flash to give tool tip, below the cursor, as it is done in softwares.(i know the option of givining the required text in the over state, it will not be below the cursor.)
do help me to perform this task.
thanx

CS3 Pen Tool
Has anyone been able to get the pen tool in CS3 to automatically fill a closed path, as it did in Flash 8? I went through preferences, but it didn't seem that there was an option to turn this on.

-Adam

The Pen Tool
I have a real newbie question. I have line with two anchor points. I want to add an anchor point to a line so I can do some tweeks. How the heck do you do that with flash.

Tool Tip HELP PLEASE
i try to write in the tool type box more text like :

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account.)
but its not working.
how i enlarge the tooltip please

tnx

Best Exe Tool
Which is the best tool for cross-platform(win/mac) flash executable. I have heard about mprojector and zinc. Which one is the best? Can Director do this job?

Is There Any Tool For Me?
Hello everybody, there are a lot of sites that offer different videos. What I do, is collect the most interesting videos that are available online. Often, the ones I check out are good but many times I land up on a page that has no video or nothing to match my interest. I am looking for a solution to this, a tool that can help me to make my browsing more specific and can prevent the openings of non-related sites.

Tool Tip
hi all
does anyone know where i can get the toop tip that is used on the macromedia website. for example on the login page when you roll over the speech bubble help tip comes out, also does anyone know how they get the tooltip to work in red when you have fill in the grid wrong
cheers

Paint Tool
Who ever seen any paint redactors, that made in flash to
use in web? I v seen one, that you can paint curves , I mean like in Paintbrush. The problem is now to save
this picture somehow on disk, so that I can attach it for example to site also.(like result of the work) It can be
just seemple paint redactor with one color(but as I now color is not a problem)
Tnank everybody

Pen Tool Question 1
How do you change a straight line to a curved line with the pen tool? Thanks,

Pen Tool Question 2
Along with the basic pen tool question I asked earlier, does anyone have a "quick list" of helpful pointers on ways to utilize the pen tool? I have not used it much before, and would like to get a better understanding of what it can do and the uses for it. Thanks,

One Last Pen Tool Question:
Once you insert a couple points along a line using the pen tool, is it possible to drag those points from their original location? For instance, if I wanted to move the top point on my line a little to the right (and lengthen the line from the previous point), how would I do that? Thanks again,

Where's The Masking Tool?
I haven't been able to locate the mask function. I want to create a banner logo that stays within fixed boundaries, but I need to mask off the outer areas of the animation.

Help?

Eraser Tool
Hi

Does anyone know how i can make a rectangular selection in wich i can use the eraser tool, like in photoshop?

thx

Eraser Tool 2
hi

does anyone know how i can use the eraser-tool in a smooth mode like in photoshop to get smoothed out borders of the erased area. i can only find an option for round or rectangular erasers.

thx

Type Tool
Hi,
could someone possbily tell me how to turn off the antialias type function in Flash 5? When I go to View: Antialias Text should the black bullet be there, or just on Antialias? Either way, I am getting smooth type, which is not the effect I am trying for.

Can you please help me? Is there another way?

Thanks,
Shannon
email: thisstudio@hotmail.com

Any One Got Any Decent Tool Tip .fla's?
i am trying to build a tool tip function into an interface. i would like to pull my tool tips in from external xml or txt file. i have managed to get everything to work except to get the text field to auto resize when it is poplated with text. ( i dont want to go in and manually stretch every text box).

now, i have tried using the following commands:

mytextbox.autosize = "left"

mytextbox._width = mytextbox.textWidth;

which both work great... ...in MX!

i really need to be backwardly compatable with version 5.

any tips? (dohhh!)

Flash MX Pen Tool
pen tool....

Does anybody know if it's possible to alter control handles independently of each other i.e - make Cusp nodes as they're called in Corel DRAW.

OR

is this itentionally left out of Flash by Macromedia so that we'll be forced to consider purchasing Freehand?

Zoom Tool
Im working on a flash map of a small town and I would like to add a zoom tool so the user can read the tiny characters that make the streets name.

Do anyone know a good script that would allow me to zoom in and out in a user-friendly manner?

Tool Tips
How can I simulate a html/windows 'tooltip' in flash mx?

ta,
gonk

A Tool: Convert SWF To EXE, And EXE To SWF
It's here: http://www.digivim.com/flashershop/

Tool Tips
I have created some tool tips for a continuing education calender that I will be posting on a site. My question is how do I get the text within the tool tip to double space or space evenly without having to do trial, and error each time I post a new class. The old one is just done with disjointed rollovers, and you can see it at http://www.brainsteak.com/calender.htm The swf in question is at http://www.brainsteak.com/calender.swf Now since this is all done in the actions palett, I have tried just hitting the eneter key but it then breaks up my code. Is there an easy way to do this. The fla is http://www.brainsteak.com/calender.fla

Thanks in advance
Task.

Tool Basic
I`ve been trying to figure out how to configure my piviot points for accurate rotations in Flash MX... but the "edit center" (from flash5 -modyfy-transform-edit center) function is gone..?. and I just can`t seem to find it anywhere!!

help would be nice...!

regards
gerrypig

~look at the piggy, piggy in the mirror~

Hand Tool
Hi there ,

When u right click most flash movies, u get the option of zoom (along other options...), if u zoom it, the mouse pointer changes to a hand tool that lets u move the movie around...

I've made a map for a page im working on, and i added a simple zoom control to it. You can see the map at:

http://www.u-v-a.com.ar/Flash/MapaZoom.swf

I would like to add the same thing to my movie, so when it's zoomed u can move it around.

I thought of using this:

onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
startDrag ("");
}
onClipEvent (mouseUp) {
stopDrag ();
}

But that lets u drag the map anywhere , and i want it to stop as the other hald tool does, before it goes off the screen.

Thanks for reading , and if u don't understand anything, tell me and i'll try to explain again.

Gradient Tool
Having just started with Flash MX I'm still trying to figure out all the tools available..

How could I make the gradient linear fill work vertical, not just horizontal.

Any way to have a custom direction besides rotating the object?

thanks

- Xano

Pen Tool Details
Can someone recommend some additional resources for learning about the pen tool. In particular, I am looking for information on differences between Illustrator and Flash drawing with the pen tool. For instance, how do you convert to a corner point WHILE you are drawing and can you access the Subselect tool while you are drawing with the Pen tool in Flash.

Thank you.

Tool To Get SWF Details?
I'm looking for a tool that can give me the details of an SWF file, without needing the FLA file:
- framerate
- url
- height
- width

Anybody know of anything cheap or free? I just need to SEE the info, don't need to modify it.

Tool Tips?
Does anyone know a simple way to add tool tips in Flash, (similar to an ALT tag in HTML)?

Basically I have a video console with buttons like Rew,FF,Play,Pause etc, and I want to display user-friendly tool tips like "Play Movie" and "Fast Forward" when the user mouse-overs them...

Steal Swf NEW Hot Tool
You all really Suck

Zoom Tool
Has anyuone out there created their own zoom tool? I wasnt to build a SWF that allows the user to control the % they view the movie at. This could happen in a couple of ways - it could be set up as a clickable button on a toolbar, such as the Magnifying Glass seen in software like Flash, Photoshop etc. Or it could be like a Mapquest map, with a column of points, the user chooses one of them to zoom in or out.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Narva99

Compress Tool
I´m searching for a good compress tool for flash movies.
The try-version from swift compress doesn´t work and flash optimizer I get no satisfied results.

Who knows some more or can give me an advice?

Best regards

Heinz

Button Tool Tip
HOW I CAN MAKE BUTTON WITH TOOL TIP?

Resizable Tool Tip Box?
chk out the ghent tool tip europe on the almanac page...

http://funkshun-us.tonaleclipse.com/...lash/index.htm

i have to figure out how to get the city tool tip 'toolTip_mc' to pop up when hovering over a city, then for it to change the name in the box and resize the box of the tool tip depending on the dynamic text size...

Ive gone ahead and named all the city instances to countryCity_mc

any suggestions???

tom

Transform Tool?
Is it possible to select all of the movie and actually transform the whole thing without leaving items out and all.. as for me some of the items move out of place ect??

Thank you very much

Using The Lasso Tool
i would like to know how to use the lasso tool to do things like connect fore arms to upper arms and stuff using the lasso tool. could someone help me?

Using The Pen Tool (Flash-MX)
I am having some problems using the pen tool. I am attempting an object with several segments. The first few strokes work well, then I get the minus (-) sign when I try another segment. Often what I have already completed changes and relocates. Is there a limit to the number of strokes, or do I have to change a setting somewhere?

Thanks.

FPS - Tool Bar

On the same bar as the onion skin button is a FPS number. It changes when the playhead is run even though I have set my frame rate. What does it means?