[Extendflash] Soften Fill Edges

Keith Peters kp at bit-101.com
Tue Jul 12 15:08:59 PDT 2005 

I'm not sure what the big deal is here. It's a perfectly valid question, as
I recall it from the first post. How do you do soften fill edges in jsfl? I
struggled with it myself a while back and made some progress but I was just
doing it for fun, so never finished it. If someone had found a nice
solution, this would be the place to ask and share it.
Keith 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: extendflash-bounces at flashguru.co.uk 
> [mailto:extendflash-bounces at flashguru.co.uk] On Behalf Of 
> Brooks Andrus
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 1:46 PM
> To: extendflash at flashguru.co.uk
> Subject: RE: [Extendflash] Soften Fill Edges
> 
> My apologies for the spam this thread created.
> 
> Sorry for asking about how to soften fill edges...image 
> manipulation seems to be well within the scope of the JSFL 
> API...perhaps there's a clearing house for good questions run 
> by 1stpixel and yourself where I could submit a JSFL question 
> and you could validate it:).
> 
> I build v2 components fairly regularly as well as simple 
> commands to help ease the work flow of myself and other 
> developers in the office. Building a custom component with a 
> soft fill which scales well based on the image size is quite 
> a bit more complex than writing a command. It's also been my 
> experience that the graphic artists in my office understand / 
> grasp the concept of a command much more quickly than they do 
> components...maybe we are a slow group, but that's where we're at.
> 
> This is pretty much a dead thread and nothing constructive 
> has been added in the last 7 or 8 posts, so let's just let it drop... 
> Peace out,
> 
> Brooks
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: extendflash-bounces at flashguru.co.uk
> [mailto:extendflash-bounces at flashguru.co.uk] On Behalf Of 
> Jesse MacFadyen
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 11:28 AM
> To: ibis at cinestarfilmworks.com; extendflash at flashguru.co.uk
> Subject: Re: [Extendflash] Soften Fill Edges
> 
> I agree with 1stpixel, you are missing the whole point if you 
> ask for advice
> 
> on how to do something and there is no good reason why.
> The first part of the solution is identify the problem, and 
> anytime someone wants to do one operation to a 1000+ 
> operation, before solving the problem implies that this is 
> not a solution to your problem but a work-around (and a
> 
> nasty one)
> 
> If you think that we don't understand or are not listening it 
> probably because you haven't clarified the end goal.
> 
> You will see less overhead if you solve this problem at 
> runtime and not design time, and most likely your solution 
> will be much simpler.
> 
> If the people who are to be  using your tool/component have 
> little understanding of the flash-IDE this just further 
> justifies the writing of a component.
> 
> My advice to you is write a component that anyone can simply just go
> 
> var myShadowBox = new ShadowBox( "path to file or library 
> linkage id ");
>     myShadowBox .setSize(400,500);
>     myShadowBox .setPosition(200,400);
> 
> The most important thing about using a tool to solve a 
> problem is knowing if
> 
> it the right tool. When all you have is a hammer ....
> 
> Cheers,
>     Jesse
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ibis Fernandez" <ibis at cinestarfilmworks.com>
> To: <extendflash at flashguru.co.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 8:30 AM
> Subject: RE: [Extendflash] Soften Fill Edges
> 
> 
> > 1stpixel, can you please keep you're off topic comments 
> away from my 
> > email.
> > If you don't understand the difference between a component and an 
> > extension
> > you are really in no position to be giving advice, or try to make an
> > argument about why he should use one thing over another.
> >
> > If you have in fact found a way to manipulate the IDE 
> through a component
> > then please, share it otherwise you really just flooding me 
> off topic
> > gibberish.
> >
> > - Ibis
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: extendflash-bounces at flashguru.co.uk
> > [mailto:extendflash-bounces at flashguru.co.uk] On Behalf Of 1stPIXEL
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 3:02 AM
> > To: extendflash at flashguru.co.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Extendflash] Soften Fill Edges
> >
> > Brooks Andrus schrieb:
> >>
> >> As to the question of a component, I'm not sure that I 
> want a components
> >> overhead in order to apply a mask, stroke and shadow.
> >
> > What overhead ? Do you mean the overhead to write some code ?
> >
> > A component should be common, when sth. is needed so often, 
> you hardly can
> > or
> > will do it by hand.
> >
> >> Perhaps, but I tend to
> >> think of components as providing an api and more code-centric in
> >> nature...
> >
> > Sure most components provide you an API. But it is not needed.
> >
> >> that's not always the case, but this command is something that is
> >> often used by people who have little or no understanding 
> of the Flash 
> >> IDE,
> >> much less a component api...does that make sense?
> >
> > perfectly. And thats what components are made for too.
> >
> > 1stpixel
> >
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