I cant seem to get mine going with the updates above - anyone got a demo of the beta 2 version up yet so I can see what I’m doing wrong?

Clue, look at the Ellipse filledshape …

is there any way to use it with Flex 4 Final? E.g. the function computeMatrix() has gone and so the whole script isn’t working anymore.

I suppose if the FlexSDK team had decided to create a hierarchy of shapes, Wedge extending Ellipse would follow that pattern. For example if the FlexSDK had Ellipse extending Rect instead of FilledElement, then you’d have that precedent. Being clean isn’t about being quick, it’s about consistency.

This was complete crap, of course when making new shape primitives, it’s better to extend the basic primitive that matches your requirements.

If there is none that fills this requirement, then yes, extend from the FilledElement superclass.

The fact that Ellipse doesn’t extend from Rect is an interesting point, since they share similar methods for measurement and bounding.

It’s a shame that even if we extended Ellipse in the first place, we’d still need to modify the class between Beta 2 and Beta 1.

However, only the drawElement(g:Graphics) method became draw(g:Graphics).

Alternatively, isn’t it cleaner to just extend spark.primitives.Ellipse and just override what you need and add the properties you need?

The simplest way to update is to take the drawElement method from this class and drop it into a copy of the new Ellipse class from beta 2, of course updating the package / class / constructor names.

You will also need to remove the draw method from your copy of the Ellipse class (now called Wedge I assume) and rename the drawElement method to draw.

I haven’t tested this as I’m in the middle of a project using Beta 1, So this is pure theory. Please let me know if I was correct.

I may well have forgotten something,

Please perform your own comparison, so you cover all relevant factors for your use case.

I have made a quick inspection of the filled arc drawing code as done in the Degrafa Pie Menu example, and due to the graphic command encoding that it needs to do, I would expect it to run marginally slower. I’d be interested to hear what you find out..