2016-05-08T09:26:21+01:00 http://flintparticles.org/forum/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://flintparticles.org/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=371&Focus=1249#Comment_1249 2010-07-15T10:16:19+01:00 2016-05-08T09:26:21+01:00 Xor http://flintparticles.org/forum/account.php?u=381

For doing shooting stars that needed to be quite fast, I needed an ellipse instead of the dot to bridge the gaps their speed would create, turning their trail from a dotted line to an actual ...

Here's the class (a simple adaption of Dot):
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package org.flintparticles.common.displayObjects
{
import flash.display.Shape;

/**
* The Ellipse class is a DisplayObject with a oval shape. The registration point
* of this diaplay object is in the center of the Ellipse.
*/

public class Ellipse extends Shape
{
private var _ellipseWidth:Number;
private var _ellipseHeight:Number;
private var _color:uint;

/**
* The constructor creates a Dot with a specified radius.
* @param radius The radius, in pixels, of the Dot.
* @param color The color of the Dot.
* @param bm The blendMode for the Dot.
*/
public function Ellipse( width:Number = 1, height:Number = 1, color:uint = 0xFFFFFF, bm:String = "normal" )
{
_ellipseWidth = width;
_ellipseHeight = height;
_color = color;
draw();
blendMode = bm;
}

private function draw():void
{
graphics.clear();
graphics.beginFill( _color );
graphics.drawEllipse( 0, 0, _ellipseWidth, _ellipseHeight );
graphics.endFill();
}

public function get ellipseWidth():Number
{
return _ellipseWidth;
}
public function set ellipseWidth( value:Number ):void
{
_ellipseWidth = value;
draw();
}

public function get ellipseHeight():Number
{
return _ellipseHeight;
}
public function set ellipseHeight( value:Number ):void
{
_ellipseHeight = value;
draw();
}

public function get color():uint
{
return _color;
}
public function set color( value:uint ):void
{
_color = value;
draw();
}
}
}]]> http://flintparticles.org/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=371&Focus=1251#Comment_1251 2010-07-18T08:02:27+01:00 2016-05-08T09:26:21+01:00 Ubuntu http://flintparticles.org/forum/account.php?u=387

Nice Ellipse Class works great :D Thank You

http://flintparticles.org/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=371&Focus=1259#Comment_1259 2010-07-24T17:51:12+01:00 2016-05-08T09:26:21+01:00 Richard http://flintparticles.org/forum/account.php?u=1

Hi Xor Thank you for this. May I include it in the next release of Flint? I would release it under the same license and copyright as the rest of the library, and would put your name in the comment ...

Thank you for this. May I include it in the next release of Flint? I would release it under the same license and copyright as the rest of the library, and would put your name in the comment as the author (what is your name?).

Richard]]> http://flintparticles.org/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=371&Focus=1266#Comment_1266 2010-07-26T14:46:00+01:00 2016-05-08T09:26:21+01:00 Xor http://flintparticles.org/forum/account.php?u=381

Sure, that's why I'm posting it here. :) As for the name, please put: Xor (Adrian Stutz) for Nothing GmbH

As for the name, please put:
Xor (Adrian Stutz) for Nothing GmbH]]> http://flintparticles.org/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=371&Focus=1270#Comment_1270 2010-07-27T07:52:46+01:00 2016-05-08T09:26:21+01:00 Richard http://flintparticles.org/forum/account.php?u=1

Thank you. It's now in SVN and will be in the next release.