Flash :: Why Is My DrawRoundRect Turning Into An Ellipse?

DrawRoundRect Is Too Sharp :(
Don't you guys think the drawRoundRect needs a "smoothing=true" or something to make the rounded corner better?

The default mode is toooo sharp

I tried for a few times and finally find the effect is rather poorer than using a bitmap instead.

Or anytips for that?

Thanks in advance

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Overriding Graphics.drawRoundRect()
Hi.
I'm new to AS3, so, please, be patient =)
Here's what I'm trying to do:
I want all the classes that extend DisplayObject class i.e. MovieClip, Sprite, Shape to use my self-made function instead of graphics.drawRoundRect() when it's called. (Something you'd do in AS2 by changing the prototype of say, MovieClip class). I just dont like the corners of the rectangular I get after using this method, and, I believe, I can substitute it with some better-looking one.
So, technicaly, what I'd like to do is smth like this:
override Graphics.drawRoundRect(){...} (which I tried in several ways I could've imagine with no positive results).
Is there any way to do it at all?
Thank you for your reply.

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Move Along Ellipse
Hi,

I'm trying to move text along an ellipse, but can't get it right. Can anyone tell give my some directions?

I have an ellipse as a motion guide, and want the text to go 'round', so I think it has to flip and change size when moving along the back of the ellipse, so it fakes the 3D space. But I actually don't know how it's done...

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Ellipse Challenge
In a drawing-application when drawing an ellipse I want the ellipse to grow from the point clicked, grow out from that point, and keep it as center.

To achieve this I simply on mouse_move, move the ellipse back half its width, and up half its height...

That works, but the problem then is that the cursor-position isnt positioned at the ellipses edges like it should be.

For drawing there are two functions.
startDrawing() - defines the point where mouse is clicked (MOUSE_DOWN)
whileDrawing() - contains the drawEllipse-script (MOUSE_MOVE)

Here is a graphic explanation of the problem:
http://www.snelhest.org/upload/image..._challenge.JPG

Thanks.

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Draw Ellipse
I have found a script to draw a ellipse, but I cant get to work. I have made a few changes so it's easy to paste in but nothing that should influence the funcion!?

It just draws a straight line. (the diagonal I think?)

I found the script here:
http://e-articles.info/e/a/title/Drawing-an-Ellipse-using-ActionScript/

- and here is my version with a few moderations:

function drawEllipse(mc, xRadius, yRadius, x, y)
{
var angleDelta = Math.PI / 4;

var xCtrlDist = xRadius/Math.cos(angleDelta/2);
var yCtrlDist = yRadius/Math.cos(angleDelta/2);
var rx, ry, ax, ay;
mc.moveTo(x + xRadius, y);
for (var i = 0; i < 8; i++)
{
angle += angleDelta;
rx = x + Math.cos(angle-(angleDelta/2))*(xCtrlDist);
ry = y + Math.sin(angle-(angleDelta/2))*(yCtrlDist);
ax = x + Math.cos(angle)*xRadius;
ay = y + Math.sin(angle)*yRadius;
mc.curveTo(rx, ry, ax, ay);
}
}

var tst = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("ellipse", 1);
tst.lineStyle(1, 0x000000, 100);
drawEllipse(tst, 100, 200, 300, 300);

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DrawingAPI An Ellipse
I want to draw a ellipse using a function that looks like this :

ActionScript Code:
function crearecerc(mcClip:MovieClip){ nRadius=parseInt(raza.text); nX=parseInt(corx.text)+X; nY=parseInt(cory.text)+Y; mcClip.beginFill(parseInt(culoare_t.text, 16),100); mcClip.lineStyle(1,parseInt(culoare_t.text, 16), 100); var nAngleDelta:Number = Math.PI / 4; var nCtrlPoint:Number = nRadius/Math.cos(nAngleDelta/2); var nAngle:Number = 0; var nRx:Number = 0; var nRy:Number = 0; var nAx:Number = 0; var nAy:Number = 0; mcClip.moveTo(nX + nRadius, nY); for (var i:Number = 0; i < 8; i++) { nAngle += nAngleDelta; nRx = nX + Math.cos(nAngle-(nAngleDelta/2))*(nCtrlPoint); nRy = nY + Math.sin(nAngle-(nAngleDelta/2))*(nCtrlPoint); nAx = nX + Math.cos(nAngle)*nRadius; nAy = nY + Math.sin(nAngle)*nRadius; mcClip.curveTo(nRx, nRy, nAx, nAy); } mcClip.endFill();}

This function creates a circle but I want to create an ellipse knowing just the center , right distance and down distance like in this figure :
figure
mcClip is the movie clip .
the center and the distances I take from a input text.

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Ellipse Container
I threw this together in response to a question in the Actionscript forum.
There's a simpler version here:
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=98185

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What Is The Ellipse Tool
Dear members,
Iwas reading a tutorial about Flash, and in it it says use ellipse tool, and as you all know there is not an ellipse tool in flash 8.

First what is ellipse tool, and is there a substitute for it in flash 8?
Nasser

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DrawingAPI An Ellipse
I want to draw a ellipse using a function that looks like this :

ActionScript Code:
function crearecerc(mcClip:MovieClip)
{
   nRadius=parseInt(raza.text);
   nX=parseInt(corx.text)+X;
   nY=parseInt(cory.text)+Y;
   mcClip.beginFill(parseInt(culoare_t.text, 16),100);
   mcClip.lineStyle(1,parseInt(culoare_t.text, 16), 100);
var nAngleDelta:Number = Math.PI / 4;
var nCtrlPoint:Number = nRadius/Math.cos(nAngleDelta/2);
var nAngle:Number = 0;
var nRx:Number = 0;
var nRy:Number = 0;
var nAx:Number = 0;
var nAy:Number = 0;
mcClip.moveTo(nX + nRadius, nY);
for (var i:Number = 0; i < 8; i++) {
nAngle += nAngleDelta;
nRx = nX + Math.cos(nAngle-(nAngleDelta/2))*(nCtrlPoint);
nRy = nY + Math.sin(nAngle-(nAngleDelta/2))*(nCtrlPoint);
nAx = nX + Math.cos(nAngle)*nRadius;
nAy = nY + Math.sin(nAngle)*nRadius;
mcClip.curveTo(nRx, nRy, nAx, nAy);
}
   mcClip.endFill();
}

This function creates a circle but I want to create an ellipse knowing just the center , right distance and down distance like in this figure :
figure
mcClip is the movie clip .
the center and the distances I take from a input text

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Rotating Pictures In Ellipse
Hi,
I am looking for some (easy to understand) action script to move 1-10 pictures around in an ellipse, and scaling them accordingly. Small in the back and full size when in front. The speed can be fixed but should be keptured in a parameter. I would also like to stop the movement when the mousecursor runs over one of the pictures and display some text somewhere on the screen.
The first bit is really the part I am looking for. The text appearance I could sort out myself but if you have an example ready it would save me some time.
Thanks, Maurice

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Pop Up Ellipse From Cycle Diagram?
hi
im a beginner with flash 8, but i have started to get a general feel for it now.
i am designing a website, where i want a cycle diagram with ellipse shapes. once you place the mouse over one of the ellipses i want either the title words to change to explain something, or, for a new large ellipse to open/pop up 'on top' of the cycle diagram to explain that something, and then onmouseout to bring it back down to the cycle diagram once finished reading.
is this possible to do!?
if so, is there any chance someone could explain how to do it?!
thanks, it would be much appreciated

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Drag Drop Within An Ellipse.
Total newbie here
I'm trying to make an object only drag within the confines of an ellipse.
I know I can use the Rectangle method to confine an object to drag, but really need it to only drag/drop inside the ellipse.

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How Uses The ActionScript Draw Ellipse?
How uses the ActionScript draw ellipse?

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Text _rotate Follow Ellipse
This one may be best directed at senocular: I have a simple script that displays a string in an elliptical pattern. The problem I am having is rotating the characters properly so their base is parallel to the elliptical curve.code: var myFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.size = 20;
myFormat.font = "Arial";
chars = "This is a test String";
for (var i:Number = 1; i<=chars.length; i++) {
x = -250*Math.cos(i/(chars.length/3))+275;
y = -200*Math.sin(i/(chars.length/3))+250;
this.createTextField("chars"+i, 100+i, x, y, 20, 30);
this["chars"+i].embedFonts = true;
this["chars"+i].text = substring(chars, i, 1);
this["chars"+i].setTextFormat(myFormat);
this["chars"+i]._rotation = ???
}

for this script to work you'll need to add the arial font to your library, name it Arial and link it for AS exporting.

Any help on this would be great. I saw senocular's post on another board regarding an AS function used for creating and rotation MC's in an circle. I couldn't make sense of it in the 5 minutes I read over it so I decided to be a little lazy.

Sleeve

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Plot An Ellipse -- Equidistant Points
I'm really hoping someone can help...

I need to plot points at an equal distance along the circumfrence of an Ellipse.
As it turns out, I'm pretty bad at geometry, which doesn't help.

I can plot the ellipse, but because I'm using sine/cos and incrementing with theta the points are crunched towards the outside of the major radius.
I've tried a bunch of different approaches- recording lots (5000) of points, then stepping through each to compare actual distance but I'm not getting nearly accurate results this way.
I've looked at drawing dotted/dashed curves from drawing api/custom classes but no luck.

If I could affect theta at the same rate the ellipse is plotted I think I'd be ok, but I can't quite grasp it.

I've read all sorts of impossiblilites about this,and a lot of people having miserable experience with this sort of thing (one guy spent 8 years trying to fit an equal-sided polygon in to an ellipse).

But- at the end of the day I can go to the Flash IDE and draw an ellipse and stroke it with an equally spaced dotted line! I just need to do this dynamically and record the points...

Any thoughts?

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How Can I Get Angle Of Reflection Inside Ellipse ?
How can I get angle of reflection inside ellipse ?
Hi . by your favor I'm English is very poor .

I want to get angle of reflection inside ellipse .
How can I get this ?

This is reference document

http://cage.rug.ac.be/~hs/billiards/billiards.html

http://forums.ultrashock.com/forums...e+of+reflection[/url]

http://cont112.edunet4u.net/~jin062.../JSP/EL002.HTML

This is my FLA (flash 8 ) file.

http://www.linuxstudy.pe.kr/~charmhoi/data/ellipse.fla

Thank you for your time.

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im trying to get my one attached mc "zombie", to flip over or turn around when the oter MC "guy", is on the other side of it.i had this code on the zombie when i didn't attach it.

Code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (_root.guy._x < _x) {
_xscale = Math.abs(_xscale);
} else {
_xscale = -Math.abs(_xscale);
}
}
but when i use this code after i attached it,

Code:
_root.zombie.onEnterFrame = function() {
if (_root.guy._x < _x) {
_xscale = Math.abs(_xscale);
} else {
_xscale = -Math.abs(_xscale);
}
};
it doesn't work....can anyone help?

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ActionScript Code:
var musicPiece:Sound = new Sound(new URLRequest("mp3s/intro.mp3"));
var mySoundChannel:SoundChannel;
var isPlaying:Boolean = false;
var pos:Number = 0;

I just have a pause button in the secondary .swf and everything works fine, the problem is that I have 3 more secondary .swfs that will load when called from buttons on the master .swf. I'm unloading the new loaders that carry the .swf childern on the main timeline of the master .swf, but the sound, of course, doesn't stop. I tried just addressing the sound channel var I made:

ActionScript Code:
this.swfIntroLoader.mySoundChannel.stop();

swfIntroLoader is the loader that I created in the master .swf that loads the child .swf (secondary .swf) with the mp3 player in it.

I've also tried to cast "swfIntroLoader" as a MovieClip and that didn't work either.

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I can't work out how to do this, I have a MC called "dial" and I have centered it in the MC.

Now when I press on it I want it to turn with the cursor like a real dial so if I press it and turn it left it will turn left and it will turn to whereever my cursor it on the stage.

Any help would be great :D

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i have a little game i'm making (just a shooty one) and when a baddie movie clip gets hit, he goes into an explosion. when the baddie is moving down the screen he is on frame 1 of his own movie clip and the hittest sends him to frame 2 and plays for 4 frames which is the graphic of him exploding.... i want the hit detect to be turned off on frame 2 of his movie so if he is exploding and hits your ship that you don't lose energy and also because as a laser hits the baddies, they goto and play frame 2 as well, but if you shoot them while they are exploding, they keep going back to and playing frame 2 which means you can keep shooting the same enemy and getting points as long as you are quick...

here is the script for the hit detection:
(spaceship is the goodie, enemy is the baddie, laser is the goodie shots at the baddie)

on the enemy:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root.spaceship)) {
_root.hits--;
gotoAndPlay (2);
if (_root.hits==0) {
_root.gotoAndStop("gameOver");
}
}
}

on the laser:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
for (i=1; i<=_root.numEnemy; i++) {
if (this.hitTest(_root["enemy"+i])) {
_root.score += 100;
_root["enemy"+i].gotoAndPlay(2);
_root.spaceship.laserCounter--;
this.removeMovieClip();
}
}
}

please help cos its got me stumped... if i wasn't very clear up there, basicaly i want frame 2 of an enemy movie to take off the hittest that the onclipevent of that movie turned on...

ask me if you want to know anything that will help you help me

thanks in advance...

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So I tried two ways to convert these to:

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http://www.ae.com/aestyle/

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Ive got a button called 'toogle' on a layer called 'toggle' that allows me to turn some music on and off - the music is in a sepearte movieclip called 'soundtrack' on a layer called 'soundtrack - and it works fine.

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