Adobe Flash CS4 Professional for Windows and Macintosh: Visual QuickStart Guide

Modifying Fills and Strokes

Modifying Simple Graphics

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Figure 4.38 Clicking a fi ll with the paint-bucket tool

applies whatever color is selected in the Fill Color

control. Use this technique to change existing fi lls.

Modifying Fills and

Strokes

Flash provides two methods for modifying

existing  lls and strokes: you can apply new

attributes with a tool (the paint-bucket tool

for  lls, the ink-bottle tool for strokes), or you

can select the  ll or stroke on the Stage and

choose new attributes in an appropriate panel.

For  lls or strokes that contain a gradient, you

can also modify the way the gradient  ts in the

shape by using the gradient-tr ...