# Small questions

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/small-questions/23799>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [June 22, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/small-questions/23799 "2003-06-22T14:06:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kajinku](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/94ad74/32.png) [@Kajinku](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kajinku)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/small-questions/23799/1 "2003-06-22T14:06:56Z")

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Hello all,

I have a couple of small and probably stupid questions for you guys, but I’m kinda tired and I don’t have a clue anymore:

**[1.]** I drawed a circle in Flash MX, with line tickness 7. Now I want to cut some parts of the circle, so I click the black arrow, select the part I want to cut and press Delete. It works, of course, but I’m not satisfied. I want the edges of the part that has been cut square-ish, not round. How do I do that? This is what I get:

![](http://www.kajinku.com/temp/example.gif)

**[2.]** Suppose I draw a dark blue rectangle and I want to make it flash a couple of times from dark blue to white. How do I do this in ActionScript? Probably very logical solution, but again, I’m tired. 😉 Instance name and stuff?

Thanks! 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/small-questions/23799/2 "2003-06-22T14:12:50Z")

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[1] for the circle, first convert the lines to fills (Modify \> Shape \> Convert Lines to Fills) Then you can cut the part out and have hard edges - since its a shape now and not lines. Lines themselves will always have curved ends.

[2] The easiest way is to do it by frame. Just have anoter frame in that box as a movieclip of the same image but white, then just play it as a loop for it to flash and tell it to gotoAndStop(1) to stop. AS can be done, but with less control and is much more a pain in the \*\*\* to implement.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2003, 2:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/small-questions/23799/3 "2003-06-22T14:29:39Z")

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Thanks a lot. 🙂

> AS can be done, but with less control and is much more a pain in the \*\*\* to implement.

That’s why I asked. 😉 I always did it frame by frame before. Isn’t the flashing part more “stable” when done in AS? It’s like there are always little lines of black during the flash when I do it frame by frame…