Ahmed Nuaman

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Posts Tagged “shapes”

• Did Someone Say Polygons?

  Monday, November 30th, 2009

  So, I’ve got a new brief that requires me to make use of hexagons in Flash. Not a problem I said and went about making a base Polygon class, and without further ado, here it is.

  It’s very simple to use, so far I’ve only made a Hexagon subclass, but I’ll make more. Nevertheless, here’s how you would use it:

  package
  {
      import com.firestartermedia.lib.as3.display.shape.Hexagon;
     
      import flash.display.Sprite;
     
      [SWF( backgroundColor='#FFFFFF', frameRate='30', width='580', height='450' )]
     
      public class Polygon1 extends Sprite
      {
          public function Polygon1()
          {
              var hex:Hexagon = new Hexagon();
             
              hex.x           = stage.stageWidth / 2;
              hex.y           = stage.stageHeight / 2;
             
              addChild( hex );
          }
      }
  }

  And this gives you:

  Or if you want to have other polygons, just do this:

  package
  {
      import com.firestartermedia.lib.as3.display.shape.Hexagon;
      import com.firestartermedia.lib.as3.display.shape.Polygon;
     
      import flash.display.Sprite;
     
      [SWF( backgroundColor='#FFFFFF', frameRate='30', width='580', height='450' )]
     
      public class Polygon2 extends Sprite
      {
          public function Polygon2()
          {
              var hex:Hexagon = new Hexagon();
             
              hex.x           = stage.stageWidth / 2 - hex.width;
              hex.y           = stage.stageHeight / 2;
             
              addChild( hex );
             
              var oct:Polygon = new Polygon( 100, 8 );
             
              oct.x           = stage.stageWidth / 2;
              oct.y           = stage.stageHeight / 2;
             
              addChild( oct );
             
              var pen:Polygon = new Polygon();
             
              pen.x           = stage.stageWidth / 2 + pen.width;
              pen.y           = stage.stageHeight / 2;
             
              addChild( pen );
          }
      }
  }

  And this produces:

  The code’s all up on github, so feel free to fork and play! Tell me what you think!

  Tags: actionscript ~ Actionscript 3 ~ api ~ as3 ~ draw ~ graphics ~ hexagon ~ polygon ~ shape ~ shapes
  Posted in Actionscript 3 ~ APIs ~ Development

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