Flash :: Fill Tool - THE MOST ANNOYING TOOL EVER

Pen Tool Doesn't Fill
Well this is annoying! Whenever I draw a shape with the pen tool in Flash Pro CS3, the shape doesn't have a fill colour. Even if I choose a colour beforehand, it never works. The stroke colour always works, but the shape is without a fill. Is there a setting somewhere in Flash that I have turned off? I've looked all over the internet and there is no solution anywhere.

Gradient Fill Tool Bug
The gradient fill tool stops working, no handles appear, this was also an issue with flash 8, is there a work around ?

Thanks

A Fill Tool For A Paint App?
hi,
i was trying to get my head round creating a fill tool for a paint program im creating in flash.
I was thinking for example if a user was to draw a circle, when the fill tool was used within that circle it could use a hit test to determin the edge of the circle, i then realised that the hit test methord uses movieclips, this being a bad thing as the shapes to be filled are being drawn in real time by the user

How would i write actionscript that acted as a fill tool? I know there is a fill command in the dictionary but i only know how to use it when drawing shapes in actionscript.

i have included the .fla file, its flash8 as2
Thanks vic.

The Fill Tool Menu
I was reading a tutorial about flash 4(I use MX 2004) and it had something called the "fill editor tool". I can't find it. I tried right clicking on the fill tool and that didn't work. I looked under both view and windows menus and couldn't find it, where is it?

Color Picker And Fill Tool
i need a help..
i want to pick color and set color in drawings..

there is a color pallete, i want to click and get the value in a variable and i have defferent mc, when i click on some mc, the mc should get the previously chossen collor...

please help...

Fill Transform Tool Problem...
I am trying to apply a (radial) gradient to a shape. When i do so, it only fills it with the inner color. So, i grabbed the fill tranform tool to edit the shape of the gradient, and it appears that the gradient, for some reason, is appling as a huge size. so much so that i have to move the center point way off the "world" (the square outside the stage) just to be able to see the other controls (specicially, the one that lets you decrease the diameter of the gradient). At that point i can adjust the gradient diamater, but i can no longer reposition the center point back on the center of my shape since its off the world. So my question is, how can i adjust the diameter of the gradient if the contol to do so is off the world? is there some sort of keyboard key combination that allows you to reduce gradient diameter? i am using flash MX. thanks.

Fill Tool Cursor Lock?
hey guys i am just wonderingthis... I am always drawing stuff with the linear gradients and than all of a sudden the cursor for the gradient has a little lock on it and Icant drag the paint tool anymore or anything just singleclicks like a normal color... and I have to restart flash to get it to go away.. what is it for and what am i doing to make itcome up and how do i get it to go away.Thanks alot.

Whats The Fill Transformation Tool Do?
I dont know if it's just me but i dont get the fill transformation tool :-(

[MX04] Fill Transformation Tool
i just cant get the fill transformation tool to work. What do i have to do before i can use it

Fill Editor Tool Where Is That In Flash Mx 2004
as in the subject where is the fill editor tool in flash mx 2004?

CS4 - Deco Tool- How To Animate Grid Fill?
Hello Everybody,
If you haven't seen the Deco Tool do a Grid Fill, it's pretty awesome. The only problem is, that unlike it's big(more complex) brother: "Vine Fill", it lacks the option box called: "Animate Pattern"(Which animates the Vine Fill, enlarging the timeline till the Vine Fill, fills the stage, as a beautiful new animation).

Why must this be?

This was so mean.

This was the ultimate tease!

What's up Flash CS4 Developers!?

lol

Not cool.

8(

Any hope for a method of animating the Grill Fill of the Deco Tool? (That is until you update Flash CS4 and give it the obvious animation option that it is surly missing)

~Mikeumus

Why I Can't Fill "fill Color" When I Draw A Shape With The Pen Tool?
The title says it all, when I draw a shape with the pen tool I can't fill the fill color for the shape, I only can change the stroke color.
By the way, I'm sure I have connected all the lines for the shape

Coding Colour Fill / Paint Bucket-tool.
I'm developing something of a paint application and need to find a solution for making a paint bucket tool. Users should be able to fill outlines of movieclips with any colour.

How should I go about this?

My first thought is to somehow extract each "area" of the outline, and make a new - separate and transparent - movieclip of them. The paint bucket would simply call setRGB or somesuch, on that overlay.

But how on earth do I do that from actionscript? This version of the application, will only have pre-drawn movieclips (outlines of different motives) for the user to fill in, but I don't want my illustrator to spend time manually creating separate layers for each area of those motives (lots and lots of them).

Perhaps you can see a different approach altogether? Is there a function for doing colour fills (within outlines, not entire movieclips) avaliable in the Flash drawing API?

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

How To Erase Line Or Fill Color, I Want To Create A Small Brush App With Eraser Tool
there r many ways to draw in AS3, but only one way to erase is to erase everything with clear(). I am building a drawing tools but don't know how to make a "eraser" tool ?? Any idea ?

Drawing over with background color is not a good idea, thought

How Do I Remove Annoying "tool Tip" Pop-up On My Site?
hi all,
This must be an adjustable option, as it doesn't happen to most sites...just MINE!
I just pushed my site live over the weekend, but when I hover my curer over a button, or actually...anywhere...it shows the title of my flash doc. everywhere and always...

url
jimsbook.com

how can I lose this "feature"?

thanks you for your time.

Best,
Pow

What Happened To The "Fill Transform Tool" In Flash CS3?
I might be crazy or blind but I've recently upgraded to flash 9 and can't seem to find the 'fill transform tool'.

I thought it was possible to rotate the angle of a gradient fill?

would be grateful if anyone has some information on that

thanks

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.

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?

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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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!)