I'm reading flash cs3 professional bible and I'm trying to apply the paint
selection mode to the figure on page111.
The book says,
"The base image is a solid white triangle with a black outline. The
boat outline is drawn with the
pencil tool in dark gray on top of the rectangle."
After I drew the rectangle with the rectangle primitive tool(black stroke
color/white fill color), I attempted to draw the
sail boat on top of the rectangle but the sail boat does show on top of the
rectangle. However, the sail boat is visible
when I select the white rectangle and move it else where. Can anybody tell me
what I'm doing wrong, and how to use the 'paint selection' mode once I've
corrected the first issue.
Thanks in advance
-nori6ga

draw the two items on different layers. once a shape is drawn, with it selected, look in the properties panel, you can change the stroke or fill there.

Thanks for your time cheech. The fill part was the key to my problem. I tried
drawing the items a couple of different ways and I found out that it wasn't
necessary to draw them on two different layers. However it was necessary to
apply fills to each part of the drawing. Thanks again cheech!