Drawing API

The drawing API is used to draw using only lines of code.

In the drawing API we have the following functions:

The first thing you need to do before drawing is choosing your pencil.

You can choose the thickness, rgb(color) and alpha(transparency).

In the real life you have to move the pencil to the place where you are going to draw, this function is for that, we move the "pencil" to a desired x and y position.

After choosing a starting place we tell the "pencil" to draw a line to an x and y position.

This function is to draw a curve, anchorX and anchorY are the position of the end of the curve. And controlX and controlY tell to which direction the curve is going to be draw.

When we are drawing an object that we want to fill with a color we call the function beginFill() before moving the "pencil" and after the last lineTo() we call endFill().

You are going to understand this when we go on examples.

This function is our virtual eraser, if we want to erase what we did and call clear().

Let's draw a square:

First we create a Movie Clip to draw on, we will call it "dBoard" and it will have 1 as its depth.

Define which "pencil" we are using. In this case the thickness is 1, the color is 0(black) and it has no transparency (100).

Here we move the "pencil" to the place we want as the start.

If you want to erase the square call clear().

To draw a square filled with black:

Draw a curve:

This is every thing you need to know about the drawing in actionscript, with these functions you can draw almost everything.