While I love new features and the new line strokes in v8 are cool, I was curious to know if one particular bug was still present. Tinic had posted up additional infomation the other day regarding the new line stroke capabilities in Flash 8 and I posted my “1px stroke bug” question in his comments. Today, I noticed he put up an entire post on the fix (mostly fixed). Awesome!!

The bug I am referring to is when using a 1 pt stroke and the anti-aliasing in Flash causing the line to “break” or appear to break. You can quickly duplicate this by creating a rectangle with rounded corners and then testing your movie. [ see below ]

broken stroke in flash

The solution is stroke hinting in Flash v8. While he states it doesn’t solve all the problems, it will fix some. A real fix to the problem involves moving Flash away from quadratic curves. Maybe that will come about for version 9?

Anyhow.. Thanks Tinic for the follow-up post regarding my question!!

- John