Apply Bevel Filter to MovieClip in Flash 8

Using actionscript to change and apply filters to movieclips in Flash 8 is a nightmare.
Firstly you have to create a filter object from the BevelFilter class.
Then you have to create a temporary Array and assign the movieclips filters array to it.
Push our filter to the temporary Array.
And finally copy the temporaray filters array to our movieclip filters.
There you have it. It is horrible isn't it. But that is how you have to do it. You cannot apply the filter changes directly.

Here is some code to show what I mean. I have a button called bevel_btn and a movieclip called square_mc

bevel_btn.onRelease = function(){
// create a filter from the filters.BevelFilter constructor
	var myBevel = new flash.filters.BevelFilter(); 
// create a temporary array to apply filter to
	var myTempFilters:Array = square_mc.filters;
// push our filter to the temp array
	myTempFilters.push(myBevel);
// copy temp filters to our movieclip filters
	square_mc.filters = myTempFilters;
}

You can use this algorithm to apply all the other filters such as BlurFilter, GlowFilter, DropShadowFilter.
Just change the constructor in the first line. e.g.

var myBevel = new flash.filters.BlurFilter();
var myBevel = new flash.filters.GlowFilter();
var myBevel = new flash.filters.DropShadowFilter();

var myBlur = new flash.filters.BlurFilter(50,50,1); 

For the BevelFilter constructor,(yes I know it is hideous) it goes as follows:

BevelFilter([distance:Number], [angle:Number], [highlightColor:Number], [highlightAlpha:Number], [shadowColor:Number], [shadowAlpha:Number], [blurX:Number], [blurY:Number], [strength:Number], [quality:Number], [type:String], [knockout:Boolean])

Flash 8 Resources

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