Comments on: 9 slice scale for bitmaps in flash (no hacks)

By: Scotty

Scotty — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 18:06:56 +0000

Thanks this worked awesomely! I had a giant PNG bitmap in the background, breaking & grouping it up like you said worked solid.

By: caleb68

caleb68 — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:06:56 +0000

I was going nuts for a bit trying to work this out with a PNG till I found this page. I converted to 9 point, then added a second layer, arranged the slice marks to the proper spots, then drew lines on second layer just on the “Outside” of the slice marks (very important) sense the corners were rounded with transparency. Cut the lines i drew on the second layer then pasted to the layer with the png, selected all and did CTRL+B (break apart), deselected all, selected each grid piece and did CTRL+G (Group). After Grouping I deleted the lines. If you do not want your transparent corners to ‘scale’ you have to have the grid lines off of it, and is why I drew the lines just outside of the grid so that the corners would be just slightly smaller then the grid itself. If they line up with the grid, THEY WILL SCALE, I don’t know if this is true for bmp’s and jpg’s, but it is for PNGS. Works great in CS 5.5 Thanks for the page I should make a little section on my site with helpful tips of flash like this, even if its just so that I can go back to it and review if I forgot. I was converting to sprites rather then groups and lining the pieces edges up exactly with the grid lines.

By: Flash’s Scale 9 Rules and Limitations « TheoryNine Labs

Flash’s Scale 9 Rules and Limitations « TheoryNine Labs — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:05:37 +0000

[...] If you want to use a bitmap…good luck. Yes, it is possible, as explained here, but the process is a royal pain and don’t even think about tweaking the slices or updating the [...]

By: Michiel van der Ros

Michiel van der Ros — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 14:33:46 +0000

Works great, thanks!
I guess some people don’t realize you have to create nine different selections and make them into nine groups.
A very annoying thing about the Flash interface here, is that when you want to make a selection where the 9-slice-guide is, you will drag the guide. You cannot lock these guides, which is possible for regular guides.
The previous comment is a nice solution for this.

By: Martin Svarovsky

Martin Svarovsky — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:54:33 +0000

Breaking apart into 9 pieces doesn’t work for me, either (Flash CS3 IDE). But I found workaround: draw horizontal/vertical lines in the place of slice guides *before* breaking bitmap apart. Then select all elements (ie. bitmap + lines) and now try to break it. Parts of bitmap should be selectable now. Group them individually (Ctrl+G) as described. Now it’s possible to delete rest of the lines.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:02:13 +0000

doesn’t work at all… ;( it would be sooo neat if it actually would, though

By: Jozef Chúťka

Jozef Chúťka — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:42:42 +0000

yes, using cs4, maybe shortcut is deifferent … you can use right click on image -> break apart to break it into graphics (instead of ctrl+b)

By: kinetic one

kinetic one — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:18:11 +0000

Unfortunately,
no luck, and I’m doing exact the things in you say.
Do you also have Flash CS4? Maybe they changed the way beaking apart works.
I managed to work around by slicing the original png and importing the 9 slicing seperately.

By: Jozef Chúťka

Jozef Chúťka — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:39:37 +0000

1. import image on scene
2. make it symbol (f8)
3. go inside symbol, select an image object and push ctrl+b (break apart) until image breaks into graphics (step 2)
4. now select each part and continue

By: kinetic one

kinetic one — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 08:33:34 +0000

Sorry,

but how exactly do you select the parts in step 2?
My Flash CS4 won’t allow me to select individual parts of the png,
only the whole png.

Cheers