Using The Stroke Color And Fill Color Controls In The Tools Panel; Using The Stroke Color And Fill Color Controls In The Property Inspector - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual

Transforming gradient and bitmap fills . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Copying strokes and fills with the Eyedropper tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Locking a gradient or bitmap to fill the Stage. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Modifying color palettes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Using the Stroke Color and Fill Color controls in the Tools panel

The Stroke Color and Fill Color controls in the Tools panel let you select a solid stroke color or a
solid or gradient fill color, switch the stroke and fill colors, or select the default stroke and fill
colors (black stroke and white fill). Oval and rectangle objects (shapes) can have both stroke and
fill colors. Text objects and brush strokes can have only fill colors. Lines drawn with the Line,
Pen, and Pencil tools can have only stroke colors.
The Tools panel Stroke Color and Fill Color controls set the painting attributes of new objects
you create with the drawing and painting tools. To use these controls to change the painting
attributes of existing objects, you must first select the objects on the Stage.
Note: Gradient swatches appear only in the Fill Color control.
To apply stroke and fill colors using the Tools panel controls, do one of the following:
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Click the triangle next to the Stroke or Fill color box and select a color swatch from the pop-up
window. Gradients can be selected for the fill color only.
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Click the Color Picker button in the color pop-up window and select a color from the
Color Picker.
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Type a color's hexadecimal value in the text box in the color pop-up window.
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Click the Default Fill and Stroke button in the Tools panel to return to the default color
settings (white fill and black stroke).
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Click the No Color button in the color pop-up window to remove any stroke or fill.
Note: The No Color button appears only when you are creating a new oval or rectangle. You can
create a new object without a stroke or fill, but you cannot use the No Color button with an existing
object. Instead, select the existing stroke or fill and delete it.
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Click the Swap Fill and Stroke button in the Tools panel to swap colors between the fill and
the stroke.
Using the Stroke Color and Fill Color controls in the
Property inspector
To change the stroke color, style, and weight for a selected object, you can use the Stroke Color
controls in the Property inspector. For stroke style, you can choose from styles that are preloaded
with Flash, or you can create a custom style.
To select a solid color fill, you can use the Fill Color control in the Property inspector.
76 Chapter 4: Working with Color