Adrian Parr’s Blog

The latest issue of Flash & Flex Developer’s Magazine is out now (issue 2/2009).

Some of the topics covered in this issue are …

• Flash Flex developer interview with Dave Schroeder about the Flashbelt Conference
• BannerSnack – A quick alternative to Flash?
• Working With Flash CS4 New Features: Inverse kinematics (IK) with Bone Tool
• Tracking Time with Screenweaver HX
• Using all the different components within CS4 to built a complete site
• Model View Controller – What’s the Secret Sauce… ?
• JSFL Quirks
• SWX: The Native Data Format for Adobe Flash
• An introduction to Flickr In Flash
• Flash video and AS3
• WebORB tricks
• Multi-user Applications in haXe
• Achieving a retro-style using only Flash
• Secrets of a professional Flash game programmer
• Interview with Lee Brimelow

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This morning I had a need to draw some circles on the stage by clicking-and-dragging, this led me to building a little visual display for lines, mid-points, rects, ellipses, angles, and circles (from centre and from corner).

It is all pretty simple stuff, but I thought I’d post it in case anyone else finds it useful.

You can download a ZIP file of the source code from here.