What happened to curves?

OK so this is something that's been bothering me for a while now, but that I've only just thought to ask about here. What happened to the blocks for drawing/adding points to a curve that we used to have? They were next to the blocks for drawing polygons and then they just disappeared in one of the updates (not sure which one)? Was this just an accident or were they taken out for some reason?

They were seen to be more of an "advanced" set of blocks, which most people didn't use. I don't believe they were ever supported in iOS, either, so rather than porting them over, they were scrapped. You can still accomplish the same with code.

Ah, that makes sense, thanks for the quick answer!

The engine doesn't support/expose it anymore but you can still do it.

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import flash.display.Shape;

...

private var canvas:Shape = new Shape();

...

canvas.graphics.lineStyle(1.0, 0xFF0000);
canvas.graphics.moveTo(10, 10);
canvas.graphics.lineTo(20, 20);
canvas.graphics.curveTo(100, 100, 50, 10);
canvas.graphics.endFill();

...

FlxG.buffer.draw(canvas);


Although I'll be stuck once it gets to iOS, correct?

Correct and, as far as I know, there's no built-in support for curves in OpenGL. You'd have to do it yourself.
I assume Sparrow doesn't support curves or Jon would have included them to match the Flash engine.

Justin sent me a link to a topic that talked about this being scrapped.. I think it was pretty much that exact reason, and the fact that noone used it essentially.