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September 02, 2005
Add rounded corners to rectangles in Flash using the keyboard
Way back when, I had an issue with having to double-click the rectangle tool to add rounded corners to a rectangle object in Flash. Not sure who told me at MM at the time, but you can simply hold the mouse button when inserting a rectangle on the stage and hold down the up or down arrow keys to adjust the rounded corners *real-time*!
This was back in the Flash 4 days I believe, maybe it was 5, but anyhoo, I was creating a rectangle with rounded corners and a co-worker asked how i did that without using the prompt.
Thought you might find this tip useful! :)
Posted by amusselman at September 2, 2005 03:08 PM
Comments
Wow, cool! Thanks! :)
Posted by: Christopher Wigginton at September 2, 2005 03:42 PM
Hey no probs! I was creating rounded corners on a rectangle for a MC that has Slice-9 enabled.
I'm sure I won't be the only one. ;)
I'll post more when I think about them.
Posted by: Alan Musselman at September 2, 2005 03:45 PM
Slice-9 Rocks! I can't wait to play around with that feature.
Posted by: Dujodu at September 3, 2005 03:52 PM
cool trick, thanks =D
Posted by: Shunjie at September 4, 2005 06:31 PM
top tip! all my flash graphic artists now think I'm a genius ;-)
Posted by: MOLOKO at September 5, 2005 02:45 AM
I forgot to mention the same goes for Fireworks. ;)
Posted by: Alan Musselman at September 12, 2005 10:15 PM
Duuuuuuuuuude!!! No Way, I taught flash for a few years back in the day, and thats something I never came across OMG -
Learn summin new every day. :)Tanx
Posted by: pixi at September 19, 2005 07:59 AM
OMG - do you have any idea how much you just helped me :D Thank you!!
Posted by: uggi at September 25, 2005 10:21 AM
You don't even know how long I have been trying to find an easy way to add roundded corners to a table in flash. Life is good. Many thanks.
Posted by: Scott at September 30, 2005 10:35 AM
Wow, I'm suprised how many people didn't know about this.
Posted by: senocular at October 1, 2005 06:23 AM
Same here senocular.
It's the same way like it works in illustrator or fireworks (and freehand i guess)
but it's a great timesaver
Posted by: _nICO at October 10, 2005 05:58 AM
Dude!
Thank you so much! I have been trying to figure out the easiest way to do it.
Posted by: kat at October 11, 2005 01:36 PM
Wow, Thanks! :)
Posted by: mete lock at November 24, 2005 02:42 PM
Whoa! Nice trick!!! Saved me heaps of time! Thanx a lot mate!
Posted by: Fragg3R at December 5, 2005 12:23 AM
Awesome...Flash's own tutorials are extremely poor...guys like you help us all move on! Thanks!
Posted by: Mark at December 22, 2005 04:33 PM
i spend two weeks doing masking and other tricky ways but could not do it..thanks to you people and specially google,from where i found this page directly. thanks once again.
Posted by: atul at May 16, 2006 08:35 AM
THANKS!Very kind of you to share that will all!
Posted by: hindy at August 5, 2006 10:55 PM
Great, I've been doing graphics for years, but I hadn't discovered that one! I guess you learn something new everyday... Thanks!
Posted by: Casper at February 9, 2007 10:24 PM
Good trick, doesn't stop them looking terrible though, does it!
Posted by: TonyAgana at February 12, 2007 03:38 AM
wow - been working in flash for years and it's alway's bugged me that one, many txs and we all learn something new everyday.
bart.
Posted by: bart at February 11, 2008 08:13 PM
Excelent tip. Years later still helpful. Thanks :D
Posted by: Jorge at September 4, 2008 06:06 PM