March 24th 2008 - Entry Posted to: ActionScript 3

This is a simple ActionScript 3 implementation of the class marching ants selection marquee you find in applications such as Photoshop.

The class is based off this ActionScript 2 example here;?Ǭ† http://www.nocircleno.com/experiments/selection_ants_proof/index.html, but adds in many more methods and is entirely self contained. Drawing the bitmaps for the marquee internally in the class.

Features

Either Fixed or user drawn marquee
Draggable or static fixed marque
Programatically changeable marquee colours
Programatically changeable marquee line thickness
Does not rely on library assets for marquee

View Example Here
http://www.noponies.com/dev/as3_marchingants/

Source Files
Actionscript 3 Marching Ants Marquee Version 1.0

Dependencies
None

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