Flash Multiple Objects

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Multiple Objects

In this tutorial you're going to see work with some of the features of the Flash drawing tools.

Step 1 - Create several different objects. Keep this simple. Don't spend a lot of time obsessing over this. Make sure that you create a couple of lines and make sure that you color your objects differently.

Step 2 - Select the Arrow tool and move the cursor over the line of an object. Notice that a small line appears by the cursor. This indicates that you've selected the line not the fill.

Step 3 - Double click the line to select it. Click again and drag the line off the image. Notice that in Flash the line and the fill as two separate items.

Step 4 - Click on one of the lines and drag it over one of your objects (A)

Step 5 - Click once on the fill (B).

Step 6 - Drag the fill away from the line (C).

Step 7 - Click and drag one object into the middle of another one (A).

Step 8 - Click on a blank area of the stage to deselect the object.

Step 9 - Click on the moved object and drag it away... notice you've now left a hole in the middle of the host object? (C).

If the second object had been the same color it would not have left a hole, it would have combined with the first object.

Step 10 - Click on one of your lines and drag it over another one until it intersects it (A).

Step 11 - Click on each section of the intersected lines and move them away from the others. Flash will divide intersecting lines into four sections just by having them intersect (B).