You should begin designing the Flash Paint application by determining the necessary elements and mapping out how they should work together. The list of desired functionality in the previous section gives you a good idea of which elements you will need to develop. Essentially, there are four basic elements:
All of these elements can be contained within a single Flash document. At this point you should open a new Flash document and save it as flashPaint.fla. This is the document to which you should add all of the code and other modifications that are contained within the following sections. The final version is available at http://www.person13.com/ascb. |