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Deconstructing the Paint Application V: The RectangleTool

By Adrien-Luc Sanders, About.com

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Setting the Active Tool

The next tool that we're going to deconstruct for the Flash Oekaki/Paint Application is the Rectangle Tool. Just as with every other lesson, the first thing that we need to do is set the active tool when the tool's button is clicked:
on (release) {
_root.isactive = "rectangle";
}
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