The use of flash8.0 ellipse tools and rectangular tools

Drag the Oval tool on the stage to draw an ellipse and a circle, and drag the rectangular tool to let you create rectangles with square corners or rounded corners. In the Properties panel, you can set the color of the fill and the color, thickness, and style of the border stroke, as well as the property settings for the line tool.

Now let's try it. Click Ellipse Tool, in the Properties panel, change the stroke color to red, thickness to 5 pixels, stroke style to dots, fill color to yellow, and drag on the stage. Is it okay? Try the same method to draw the rectangle. Remember that you can limit shapes to circles and squares by holding down the SHIFT key as you drag.

The Rectangle tool also enables you to draw rectangles of rounded corners. The angle of the rounded rectangle in the rectangle tool can be set by clicking the Rounded Rectangle radius button on the bottom of the toolbar to eject the Rectangle Settings dialog box, as shown in Figure 2-2-1.

Figure 2-2-1 The Rectangle Settings dialog box

In the corner radius, fill in the value, making the corners of the rectangle arc-shaped. If the value is zero, the square corner is created. You can also adjust the fillet radius by holding down and DOWN ARROW keys while you drag the rectangle tool on the stage.

When you click the triangle in the lower-right corner of the rectangle tool, the multi-angle Star tool appears. Click the multi-angle Star tool, and in the Properties panel, you can set the number and shape of edges of the polygon. Click the Options button in the Properties panel and the Tool Settings dialog box appears, as shown in Figure 2-2-2.

Figure 2-2-2 Tool Settings dialog box

Click the Style drop-down menu, you can select polygons and stars, and you can define the number of edges of the polygon in the Tool Settings dialog box, which is between 3-32.

Here are the patterns that are randomly drawn with different styles and colors, as shown in Figure 2-2-3. You also have to try, you can choose different colors and different styles to draw more graphics to deepen the impression.

Figure 2-2-3 A pattern drawn with an elliptical tool and a rectangular tool