Making a 'fill with color' application

programming flash
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Hi.

I’m totally new with Flash, and I’m making an application where the user can fill some drawings with color. This is going to be a ‘game’ for kids aged 5-10, so it have to be really simple to use. You know, pick a color and fill a part of the drawing. The drawings are premade templates.

Since I haven’t really learned enough about Flash to know if there is an easy way to do this, I’m asking you guys…

Any suggestion would be appreciated!

Rune Heggemsli,
HMP

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check this file:

C:\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash MX\Samples\FLA\Color_picker.fla

it will give you some ideas…

Cheers :bounce:

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i recently had to make something similar to act like a kids online coloring book thingy, and i used this tutorial to help me get a good idea of how to do it. Its a flash 5 tutorial but works all the same for MX. Nice easy tutorial, and is more than enough to give you an idea how to create something larger. It also has a link at the end to another nice and easy tutorial which shows you how to change your mouse icon.

http://www.permadi.com/tutorial/flash5Color/index.html

Hope it helps.

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Thanks! That was really useful.

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Hi again.

I have now found a way how to fill the drawings with color, thanks to the link above. The only problem now is the printing. The idea of my application is that the user can select a drawing, fill it with color, and then print it out.

Since there are a number of drawings to select from, I have to figure out a way to solve the printing problem. I first thought of a system where each drawing was assigned to a frame of its own, but I now think that it’s probably best to just load the movieclips of the drawing into frame 1. That way I can avoid the problem of printing multiple frames. (i.e. the movie have only one frame).

I just found out how to load movieclips into my movie, but I want to have actions attached to them. Is there any way to do this?

Can you help me?