While I don't seem to be able to do this easily, I am applying scale9grid to sorta do what I want. I was hoping for incremental stretching on the sides... maybe that is something I'll be able to do using a hydra filter or something in FP10.
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Rich Shupe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric, if you're saying you want to manipulate the first and last 15% of a > display object without creating anything else, I don't think that's > possible. The closest I can think of that will accomplish that is using a > displacement map filter in conjunction with resizing. That might get you > what you need, but you'll still have to create the displacement map. > > Another way to do this is to create and destroy other objects but within > the > main object. At least that way you won't have to worry about moving, > rotating, etc., four slices. You could use BitmapData, for example, create > the four slices and add them inside the same do, allowing you to manipulate > only slices 1 and 4, but still treat the entire d.o. as a single entity. > > > On 5/20/08 9:44 AM, "eric e. dolecki" wrote: > > > I am looking to take a DO (movieclip), and stretch just the side edges, > > leaving the middle unstretched... so take an image, cut in 4 vertical > > pieces, and stretch the outside pieces out horizontally by like 15%. > > > > I could use DisplayObjects above the main one and just stretch those > > horizontally, but I really want to keep this contained to manipulations > on > > the main object itself and not worry about creating and destroying > others. > > Rich > http://www.LearningActionScript3.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
