
Making Selections
Chapter 4
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Making Selections
Merge-shapes, drawing-objects, and primitives
all behave slightly di erently when being
selected. What you think of as a single shape
may contain several segments. e rectangle
tool creates a square whose stroke is actually
four separate line segments. Clicking one
side of a merge-shape square’s stroke selects
just that segment. To fully select the square’s
stroke, you must select each segment (you
could use Shift-click to add the remaining
sides to the initial selection). If you create the
square as a drawing-object or a rectangle-
primitive, Flash treats the four stroke segments
as a unit. Clicking ...