How do I draw arrows for callouts?

Patty Civalleri · 04-28-2001, 06:33 PM

Hi, I'd like to have an arrow draw itself and point to a piece of machinery. I need to re-use it several times, and change it slightly each time.

Here's what happens: In frame one, I draw a short line. I create a motiontween to keyframe at 15. In 15, I scale the line (to extend the length) but it extends BOTH ends instead of one. It seems to extend correctly if there is no tween. But as soon as I add the tween then extend the line, it extends both ends.

If I extend the line first, then add the tween, it just jumps from the short line to the long line in 15. It doesn't draw the line out frame-by-frame.

Help...

patty

Jesse · 04-29-2001, 08:23 AM

I hope you're making your like a graphic or MC symbol, or using a shape tween. You can't motion tween a vector based line, you have to either (i) shape tween it (because it's a shape) or; (ii) convert it to a graphic of movie clip then motion tween it...

Flash will probably be trying to keep the centre point the same so that's why it's expanding in both directions...

Cheers

Jesse

CoolJim · 12-28-2005, 02:44 PM

Soo... if i undestood you right,Patty, you wanna add some call outs to frames.I think you should use this for ur purpose. This proggy allows to add different lines, create and add call outs of various shape with text in.

time bank · 02-01-2006, 09:09 AM

yeah, i`m already using PresenaVId...
it works great.

thanx for posting

04-29-2001, 08:23 AM	#2
Jesse Administrator Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Australia Posts: 8,612	I hope you're making your like a graphic or MC symbol, or using a shape tween. You can't motion tween a vector based line, you have to either (i) shape tween it (because it's a shape) or; (ii) convert it to a graphic of movie clip then motion tween it... Flash will probably be trying to keep the centre point the same so that's why it's expanding in both directions... Cheers Jesse __________________ Cheers Jesse Stratford ActionScript.org Cofounder Email: presented in this way to stop spam-bots: My email is composed of my first name (jesse) followed by my last name (stratford) followed by @ followed by actionscript.org Please don't email or PM me Flash questions, that's what the Forums are for! Please don't rely on me reading my PMs either. Email me about important stuff.

12-28-2005, 02:44 PM	#3
CoolJim Registered User Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 19	Soo... if i undestood you right,Patty, you wanna add some call outs to frames.I think you should use this for ur purpose. This proggy allows to add different lines, create and add call outs of various shape with text in. Last edited by CoolJim; 12-28-2005 at 02:46 PM..

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04-28-2001, 06:33 PM	#1
Patty Civalleri Registered User Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 2	Hi, I'd like to have an arrow draw itself and point to a piece of machinery. I need to re-use it several times, and change it slightly each time. Here's what happens: In frame one, I draw a short line. I create a motiontween to keyframe at 15. In 15, I scale the line (to extend the length) but it extends BOTH ends instead of one. It seems to extend correctly if there is no tween. But as soon as I add the tween then extend the line, it extends both ends. If I extend the line first, then add the tween, it just jumps from the short line to the long line in 15. It doesn't draw the line out frame-by-frame. Help... patty


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02-01-2006, 09:09 AM	#4
time bank Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 15	yeah, i`m already using PresenaVId... it works great. thanx for posting