Deconstructing the Paint Application VI: The Gradient Rectangle Tool

From Adrien-Luc Sanders, former About.com Guide

For the next tool in the group, let’s look at the Gradient Rectangle tool. Just like with all the others, the first thing that we need to do is set up the button to change _root.isactive (the variable representing our active tool) to the gradient rectangle:

on (release) { 
_root.isactive = “gradientrec”; 
}

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• Setting the Active Tool
• Defining Behavior on Mouse Move
• Setting Starting Variables for Gradients
• Number () and parseInt()
• Defining Behavior on Mouse Release
• Understanding beginGradientFill
• Understanding Arrays Used in beginGradientFill
• Understanding the Matrix used in beginGradientFill

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