MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 LANGUAGE Reference page 632

The GradientGlowFilter class lets you apply a gradient glow effect to a variety of objects in
Flash. A gradient glow is a realistic-looking glow with a color gradient that you can control.
You can apply a gradient glow around the inner or outer edge of an object or on top of an
object.
The use of filters depends on the object to which you apply the filter:
To apply filters to movie clips, text fields, and buttons at runtime, use the
property. Setting the
can undo the filter by clearing the
To apply filters to BitmapData instances, use the
Calling
applyFilter()
the filter object and generates a filtered image as a result.
You can also apply filter effects to images and video during authoring. For more information,
see your authoring documentation.
If you apply a filter to a movie clip or button, the
or button is set to
true
restored.
This filter supports Stage scaling. However, it does not support general scaling, rotation, and
skewing; if the object itself is scaled (if
is not scaled. It is scaled only when the Stage is zoomed.
A filter is not applied if the resulting image exceeds 2880 pixels in width or height. For
example, if you zoom in on a large movie clip with a filter applied, the filter is turned off if the
resulting image exceeds the limit of 2880 pixels.
Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 8
See also
ratios (GradientGlowFilter.ratios property)
(BitmapData.applyFilter method)
,
property) filters (Button.filters property)
(flash.filters.GlowFilter)
,
property) filters (MovieClip.filters property)
property)
632 ActionScript classes
property of an object does not modify the object, and you
filters
filters
on a BitmapData object takes the source BitmapData object and
. If you clear all filters, the original value of
_xscale
,
cacheAsBitmap (Button.cacheAsBitmap
,
cacheAsBitmap (MovieClip.cacheAsBitmap
property.
BitmapData.applyFilter()
property of the movie clip
cacheAsBitmap
cacheAsBitmap
and are not 100%), the filter effect
_yscale
,
applyFilter
,
GlowFilter
,
filters (TextField.filters
filters
method.
is