One of the designs I am working on has a truckload of stripes over color gradients on different elements throughout the application. Now I could either have custom graphics for the elements embedded in the fla or do the more fun thing and write a class that drew stripes for me. So here it is. These are the first released classes from my voodoo framework (more on that later).

The Stripes class works as follows:
It creates a BitmapData object draws two rectangles, one semi-transparent and the other transparent. The BitmapData is then drawn on the target MovieClip using beginBitmapFill after being skewed by a Transformation Matrix.

[swf] /blog/swf/Main.swf, 500, 600 [/swf]

You can download the zip file with the AS file and fla here. I have also included the GradientRect class which lets you easily draw gradient rectangles on any MovieClip.

P.S. Thanks to unijimpe for the wp-swfobject plugin. Easiest way to embed swfs in WordPress.