That's a good point about the speed of drawing vectors. I think I'll try it this way.
Thanks for the suggestion. Adrian P On 3/20/06, Ian Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Adrian, > I have no experience of doing this whatsoever - but - my immediate > feeling is that you should go for your first idea. Create the shapes > as vectors, then grab the BitmapData from. This is simply because the > routines to draw the shapes are all native to the Flash Player, and > they are therefore going to be a _lot_ faster than anything you can > come up with in ActionScript. > > HTH, > Ian > > On 3/20/06, Adrian Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want draw regular shapes with antialiased edges into a blank > BitmapData > > object. A rectangle is simple (if it isn't rotated at all) but how would > I > > go about drawing something like a filled circle at a specified position > with > > a radius r? > > > > I figure I could easily draw what I want using vectors and then create a > > BitmapData instance from this but this seems a little convoluted and > > inefficient to me. I've also thought about writing some code to work out > > which pixels are completely encompassed within the circle and giving > these > > solid colour and then manually calculating the amount to tint pixels at > the > > edge of the circle to create the antialiasing but the routines I have in > my > > head would be even more inefficient than the vector method. > > > > Anybody done this, know of any examples/code or have any bright ideas? > > > > Thanks, Adrian P > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > To change your subscription options or search the archive: > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software > Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training > http://www.figleaf.com > http://training.figleaf.com > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
