Have you ever tried making rounded corners in Flash? In all likelihood, yes—you have. Have you noticed that rounded corners tend to get pixelated when the rounded figure is small? I have recently noticed that—oddly enough, I had never had an opportunity to create very small objects with rounded corners before.
So there I was, scratching on my head, and looking thoughtfully at my creation. Fortunately enough, after a while I found a solution to this problem. It's called "stroke hinting".
Below you can see two images of the same corner in Flash: the first one without stroke hinting, the other—with stroke hinting applied to it.
Even though I have been using Flash 8 a long, long time now, I have never really paid much attention to the little Stroke hinting.
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What this option does is keep your lines on whole pixels, which helps your rounded corners look more "normal".
What if you're still on Flash MX ? Then, it is possible to achieve the same effect by simply positioning your lines on whole pixels. Manually. You know—by typing integers in the x and y coordinate fields in the Properties Window.
Hope this information helped :-)
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