Mac - Drawing a Straight Line Between Two Objects?

[pinacoladaxb]

I have two active objects (one stationary, one following the player's mouse), and I want a straight line to be drawn between them while the player moves his mouse. I've seen examples of how to do this, but they all require extensions that are not java or flash-compatible, which means they cannot be run on a mac.

Is there a way to draw a straight line using only extensions compatible with the java or flash runtime? :crazy:

[Paul_Boland]

The Draw Object seems to be Java available but not Flash. You can use its Line Tool to draw a line. You need to Always erase the draw area and then redraw the line so as to give the effect of a line following the mouse pointer. I used this in DigiGraph 2.

[Jaffob]

You can always draw a simple line using an Active. Create an Active that is one pixel wide and the desired thickness of the line in height. Then when you need to draw the line, set its scale to the distance between the startpoint and endpoint, and its angle to the angle between the startpoint and endpoint. If you don't want you use the mathematical equations for this, the Clickteam Movement Controller has expressions for this purpose, I believe it is compatible with all runtimes.

[pinacoladaxb]

You can always draw a simple line using an Active. Create an Active that is one pixel wide and the desired thickness of the line in height. Then when you need to draw the line, set its scale to the distance between the startpoint and endpoint, and its angle to the angle between the startpoint and endpoint. If you don't want you use the mathematical equations for this, the Clickteam Movement Controller has expressions for this purpose, I believe it is compatible with all runtimes.

That is an awesomely creative way of accomplishing it! Thank you!

[Jacob]

The Surface Object is compatible with Flash, and can be used to do this. It's basically an updated Overlay Redux. In other news, it's been ages since I saw you here :P

[pinacoladaxb]

The Surface Object is compatible with Flash, and can be used to do this. It's basically an updated Overlay Redux. In other news, it's been ages since I saw you here :P

Yes! Unlike you, I have not always existed. :grin:

Thanks for this. The Active method was fun, but the Surface Object makes nicer-looking lines.

[Paul_Boland]

You can always draw a simple line using an Active. Create an Active that is one pixel wide and the desired thickness of the line in height. Then when you need to draw the line, set its scale to the distance between the startpoint and endpoint, and its angle to the angle between the startpoint and endpoint. If you don't want you use the mathematical equations for this, the Clickteam Movement Controller has expressions for this purpose, I believe it is compatible with all runtimes.

The only problem with this is it will only work for drawing the line once. The original question was to have a connecting line between a point and the mouse pointer. If you use this method above, you'll end up with a load of line wipes across the screen as you move the mouse, or with no connecting line and only one line drawn between two points.

[pinacoladaxb]

You can always draw a simple line using an Active. Create an Active that is one pixel wide and the desired thickness of the line in height. Then when you need to draw the line, set its scale to the distance between the startpoint and endpoint, and its angle to the angle between the startpoint and endpoint. If you don't want you use the mathematical equations for this, the Clickteam Movement Controller has expressions for this purpose, I believe it is compatible with all runtimes.

The only problem with this is it will only work for drawing the line once. The original question was to have a connecting line between a point and the mouse pointer. If you use this method above, you'll end up with a load of line wipes across the screen as you move the mouse, or with no connecting line and only one line drawn between two points.

I actually ended up using the Active method because neither the Surface Extension nor the Flash Draw Extension were working properly.

[Jaffob]

You can always draw a simple line using an Active. Create an Active that is one pixel wide and the desired thickness of the line in height. Then when you need to draw the line, set its scale to the distance between the startpoint and endpoint, and its angle to the angle between the startpoint and endpoint. If you don't want you use the mathematical equations for this, the Clickteam Movement Controller has expressions for this purpose, I believe it is compatible with all runtimes.

The only problem with this is it will only work for drawing the line once. The original question was to have a connecting line between a point and the mouse pointer. If you use this method above, you'll end up with a load of line wipes across the screen as you move the mouse, or with no connecting line and only one line drawn between two points.

What do you mean? If you only want one line shown at a time, re-scale and re-rotate the active. If you want more than one, create another active. Doesn't that work?