Drawing shapes in AS3: A Class to draw an Arc, Star, Gear, Cog, Wedge and a Burst

Today I’ve been scouting the internet for a specific class, one that draws shapes.
I remembered that some time ago I read an article on the Adobe Dev site by Ric Ewing about drawing shapes. But this was all done in AS2… and I hated AS2! (and so should you ! ) But I found a AS3 version. Its redone by a guy from Bristol, Aden Forshaw.

He also posted a really cool tool that generates code and allows you to visually adjust the settings of an object. Go check it out.

After looking at his code I re-wrote it so it takes the Graphics Class instead of only allowing Sprites, changed datatypes, optimized loops, optimized math operations and threw errors where needed.

So here is the new class for you to download and an example on how to use it. The code below actually produces the image on the top of this post):

var s : Shape = new Shape( );
s.graphics.lineStyle( 4, 0xE16606 );
DrawingShapes.drawArc( s.graphics, 50, 50, 10, 150, 60 );

s.graphics.lineStyle( 3, 0x000000 );
DrawingShapes.drawBurst( s.graphics, 80, 60, 3, 15, 6, 27 );

s.graphics.lineStyle( 1, 0x3C3C39 );
DrawingShapes.drawDash( s.graphics, 120, 60, 150, 80, 2, 2 );

s.graphics.lineStyle( 3, 0xE16606 );
DrawingShapes.drawGear( s.graphics, 200, 60, 13, 31, 26, 0, 7, 13 );

s.graphics.lineStyle( 3, 0x0074B9 );
DrawingShapes.drawPolygon( s.graphics, 270, 60, 7, 30, 45 );

s.graphics.lineStyle( 2, 0x000000 );
DrawingShapes.drawStar( s.graphics, 340, 60, 18, 24, 19, 27 );

s.graphics.lineStyle( 2, 0xFFCC00 );
DrawingShapes.drawWedge( s.graphics, 400, 60, 30, 309, 209 );

s.graphics.lineStyle( 2, 0x0074B9 );
DrawingShapes.drawLine( s.graphics, 440, 80, 30, DrawingShapes.VERTICAL_LINE );

addChild( s );

And here is a pastie especially for those who don’t like the zip format:

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