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object drawing model: One of the new features of Flash 8 is the Object Drawing Model. Prior versions of Flash only supported the Merge Drawing Model. But in Flash 8 you can toggle between these two approaches. Merge drawing is like it sounds, when one line/shape overlaps another line/shape they merge, or if you put a shape over another shape the shape on bottom appears to get eliminated. We all have used this and also lamented this sometimes. The work around was to group lines or shapes to protect them from these types of merges. This is not required with object drawing which separates line/shapes and does not merge the overlapping pieces.

TBS starting with V3.0 also has this type of drawing feature. It isn't talked about as object drawing mode or merge drawing mode but the functionality is there. In TBS V3.0 and above you can select a menu choice called "Draw Top Layer" which is in fact the same thing as the Merge Drawing Model in Flash. Or if you toggle off "Draw Top Layer" you get the same results as the Flash Object Drawing Model. Different names same basic functionality.




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