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New drawing features in Flash 8 - part 2
Welcome to the second article about the new drawing features of Flash 8. If you read the first article, you’d have seen some of the new drawing features within Flash including the Rectangle and Oval tool settings dialog boxes, working with Drawing Objects and creating enhanced strokes and joins. However, you don’t need to have read that tutorial first. In this article, we’ll cover the expanded Gradients and the new 9-slice scaling feature in Flash 8.
You’ll need a copy of Flash 8 to see the new features explored in this article and the areas that I’ll cover apply to both versions of Flash Basic 8 and Flash Professional 8. You can download a trial version of the software from the Macromedia Web site.
You can also download the source files for the tutorial from the blue Properties box that contains the article PDF. There's a heading titled Code Download and you can click the Details link next to it to get the zip file. The download includes the starter files you'll need as well as the completed files.
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We’ll start by looking at the new options for working with gradients.
Sas Jacobs
Hello. I'm the Principal of Anything Is Possible, an Australian web development business specialising in web applications development and training. I'm interested in using Flash with dynamic content and I've presented at a number of International conferences on topics relating to applications development, XML and scripting components. I have recently released my second print book Beginning XML with DOM and Ajax to match the first one - Foundation XML for Flash. I have a business web site
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