Interactive graphing tool
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- Glitterati_Duane
Anyone know of a way to digitally manipulate a line the same way curves are manipulated in Photoshop? I had a thread about this before and a few people said that it can be done in Flash but with my lack AS skills it could be a nightmare to pull off. Am I crazy to think that there is an easy way to do this??? It doesn't HAVE to be done online by the way.
- madirish0
these threads of late are making my head hurt.
- Glitterati_Duane0
It makes mine hurt more because I have to figure it out
- emmaopeel0
what do you want to do? draw a curve in flash or have a curve with bezier tools that a user can pull (to reshape the curve)?
- Glitterati_Duane0
Doesn't need bezier tools. The lines are actually rigid like in a heart monitor or Richter scale. I essentially want the user to be able to create a line like that manually
- skt0
"It doesn't HAVE to be done online by the way."
have you considered a wooden board, thread and pins?
- *donates 2.5 board feet of reclaimed red oak.blaw
- Yes. The client wasn't amusedGlitterati_Duane
- _niko0
so you want a user to click between two points and generate a line in between? and the more points they click the more lines get generated?
- emmaopeel0
are these at all helpful? I wrote something once that allowed the user to manipulate some of the plotting values through an entry field (maybe a high and low value for a heart rate, etc.).
- I think this is close to what I want based on your explanation. I'm new to Action Script though. Do you think it would be hard for to grasp it?Glitterati_Duane
- hiimerik0
: )
- jevad0
WAT
- _niko0
should be pretty simple for actionscripters, It would be something like a series of movie clips in a straight line, each with a startdrag function, and each MC is attached to the previous one with a red line. the red line extends between the two points when dragged around.
- Glitterati_Duane0
Is the startdrag function an AS2 thing?
- _niko0
graphics.lineStyle(1, 0);
graphics.moveTo(clip1.x, clip1.y);
graphics.lineTo(clip1.x, clip1.y);
graphics.lineTo(clip2.x, clip2.y);something like this draws a line between two points in AS3