fill color in movieclip

Can you send the fla somewhere.


"clbeech" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> hmmm .... it seems to work fine for me in testing, and only fills the MC
> regardless of it's position on Stage. What's not working for you?

hmmm .... it seems to work fine for me in testing, and only fills the MC regardless of it's position on Stage. What's not working for you?

Can u send the exact code please.


"clbeech" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Sorry, man, you must have grabbed that code before I'd made my edit, and
> I'm
> afraid I'd 'winged' it on the spot. But then though 'hey I outta test
> that',
> then realized there were some better ways to orgainize it. Take another
> look
> at the code block above, I'd changed several elements.
>
> In this system, I decided that it would be better to draw directly into
> the
> clip that is being called, and should solve the placement issue, attaching
> the
> bmp directly to it.
>
> Additionally, instead of calling '_root' try: '_level0.mc[ ... ]' I
> assume
> then that you have a 'parent' container named 'mc' that 'myClip' is drawn
> in.
> Using the access operator should work here as a parameter. But I think I
> would
> put the function itself on the main timeline, and make calls to the
> function
> from a depth as in:
>
> _level0.fillColor(_level0.mc[ ... ], 0xFFFF0000);
>
> also don't forget the 32bit ARGB format.
>

Sorry, man, you must have grabbed that code before I'd made my edit, and I'm afraid I'd 'winged' it on the spot. But then though 'hey I outta test that', then realized there were some better ways to orgainize it. Take another look at the code block above, I'd changed several elements.

In this system, I decided that it would be better to draw directly into the clip that is being called, and should solve the placement issue, attaching the bmp directly to it.

Additionally, instead of calling '_root' try: '_level0.mc[ ... ]' I assume then that you have a 'parent' container named 'mc' that 'myClip' is drawn in. Using the access operator should work here as a parameter. But I think I would put the function itself on the main timeline, and make calls to the function from a depth as in:

_level0.fillClip(_level0.mc[ ... ], 0xFFFF0000);

also don't forget the 32bit ARGB format.

>>beginFill not usable since it starts filling just from begining.

Have you tried it and it's not working for you? beginFill is really the only
way to fill a shape with the drawing API. Is it that you're wanting to draw
a shape on screen and only show its outline - and at some later point fill
it? If so, you'd just need to run the same code over, this time turning on
fill... You might change your supplied code to something like this:


with (myClip) {
if(doFill){
beginFill(0xFF0000);
}
moveTo(0,0);
lineTo(50,0);
lineTo(50,100);
lineTo(0,100);
lineTo(0,0);
if(doFill){
endFill();
}
}

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