Comments on: Easy Full-Screen Gradients in Flash – AS3

By: Eskel

Eskel — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:16:25 +0000

STEPHEN BRAITSCH: Thank you so much for this class, it helped me a lot.
SIDEDOOR: And thanks for the alpha modification as well, that was actually what I needed.

By: Stephen Braitsch

Stephen Braitsch — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:11:31 +0000

Sounds like a few of you guys are getting syntax errors due to character entities injected by your text editor. If that is the case be sure to replace anything like “–&g;” to “:” as Daniel noted above.

By: Colin Jackson

Colin Jackson — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:01:49 +0000

Got it to a point, now I’m getting this:

1084: Syntax error: expecting identifier before bitwiseand.

By: Colin Jackson

Colin Jackson — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:59:36 +0000

have tried to implement your class. However, I get this error:

5001: The name of package ‘com.quietless.display.drawing’ does not reflect the location of this file. Please change the package definition’s name inside this file, or move the file. /Applications/ColdFusion9/wwwroot/colin/FullScreenGradient.as

By: jeetendra

jeetendra — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:07:29 +0000

Hi DANIEL,
it will be
var grad:FullScreenGradient = new FullScreenGradient(colors, type, constrain);
please check

jeetendra

By: daniel

daniel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:48:41 +0000

got it….
“–&g;” should be replaced with “:”

I need some sleep

By: daniel

daniel — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 03:24:08 +0000

Hi,
thx vm for the code,
what is “–>”? (i get error “expecting identifier before bitwiseand”)

thx

By: sideDoor

sideDoor — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:43:57 +0000

Oh, yeah, forgot to mention: also added to the FullScreenGradient class, the setter function:

public function set alphas($alphas:Array):void {
_alphas = $alphas;
}

By: sideDoor

sideDoor — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 06:41:45 +0000

Hey bro,

Great class, extremely handy…once again helping me greatly!

I added the ability to set the gradient-colors’ alpha-values while instantiating the object, ie:

…other code…
// create array of alphas //
var alphas:Array = [.2, .3, .4, 1];
// instantiate object, including the alphas array //
var grad:FullScreenGradient = new FullScreenGradient(colors, type, constrain, alphas);

and within your FullScreenGradient class, removed the current method of setting the gradient alphas on line 96 and changed your constructor to this:

public function FullScreenGradient($colors:Array, $type:String = RADIAL, $constrain:Boolean = true, $alphas:Array = null){
this.colors = $colors;
this.type = $type;
if ($alphas){
this.alphas = $alphas;
}
else
{
for (var i:int = 0; i < _colors.length; i++)
{
_alphas.push(1);
}
}
_constrain = $constrain;
if (_type) listenForStageAvailability();
}

…not sure if that would be of help to anyone else but me though, lol

Thanks so much man!
jf