After Creating a Path…
- Select the path with the Direct Selection Tool.
- Translation: Take the white arrow in your toolbar and click on the path. The anchor points will appear letting you know it’s selected.
- Create new fill or adjustment layer.
- Translation: Click on the half white/half black circular icon at the bottom of the layers panel. From the pop up select the type of layer you wish to create. (Solid, Gradient, Pattern, etc.)
A Vector Mask generated from your Path will now be included in the layer you just created.
A common and frustrating issue when creating text fields dynamically is the manipulation of this objects alpha property. Usually you just set it and forget it, but in this case a couple more steps are required. the trick is to set the blending mode of the text fields parent object.
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Years ago before I discovered Internet Explorer’s Conditional Comments, I struggled with CSS hacks, IE filters, and unreliable JavaScript sniffers.
With this technique markup inside the comments will be only visible to the IE browser in general or specific versions that you specify.
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Displaying Flash in a browser sometimes causes display issues. Two common ones are extra space under the object and another is an outline around the object in Firefox 3.
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In ActionScript 3 accessing your favorite object properties no longer require underscores as they did in AS 2. Here are some examples that list the previous and current conventions.
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A while ago an update to Safari enabled users to drag the bottom right corner of a text area and re size it to their hearts delight.
While some users may have good reason to increase the area, the majority of users would hardly notice the new feature let alone take advantage of it. Still others would simply abuse it and expand it to an unreasonable proportion.
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Here is a reference table that displays the CSS equivalent in JavaScript.
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