filling pie

[Pawel P.]

Hello all,

I want to make a pie chart that would slowly with time (around 50-100
frames) fill with a blue color. What is the best way to do it? Can it be
done with action script? If so what function would be useful for me.

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Pozdrawiam,

Pawel P.

[Adam Albright]

On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 22:34:27 +0200, "Pawel P."
<pisiu@[nospam]yahoo.com> wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I want to make a pie chart that would slowly with time (around 50-100
>frames) fill with a blue color. What is the best way to do it? Can it be
>done with action script? If so what function would be useful for me.

Use beginFill() and endFill() if you want a solid color.

Use beginGradientFill() with endFill() for gradients.

You need to set the values to determine the color you want to use and
either create some object to color or point to one you already have.

[url]http://actionscript-toolbox.com/flashmx_drawingtools.php[/url]

You of course can use Flash to create the pie chart or other shapes
using its built-in trigonometric features.

For those that were asleep in math class, to determine points along a
circle's perimeter you need something like this:

x1 = x0 +(Math.cos(angle) * radius);
y1 = y0 + Math.sin(angle) + radius);