User Guide

Document functions 191

Description

Selects the parents, if any, of the selection. That is, if all the members of a group are selected, the

individual members are deselected, and the group is selected.

See also

dom.selectChildren()

dom.selectSimilar()

Availability

Fireworks 3.

Usage

dom.selectSimilar(tolerance, edgemode, featherAmt, combinemode)

Arguments

tolerance

An integer between 0 and 255, inclusive, that specifies the tolerance for

selecting pixels.

edgemode Acceptable values are "hard edge", "antialias", and "feather".

featherAmt An integer that specifies the number of pixels to feather. This value is ignored if

edgemode is not "feather".

combinemode Specifies how to combine the new selection mask with the existing mask.

Acceptable values are

"replace", "add", "subtract", and "intersect".

Returns

Nothing.

Description

If Fireworks is in bitmap mode and a pixel selection is active, this function selects all pixels in

the current image that are within the specified tolerance of the average color in the current

pixel selection.