Not sure if this will help, but try changing the Fill Options to either
Close Medium Gaps or Close Large Gaps. You can do this by first clicking on
the Fill Tool. Then in the Options section of the Tool Panel, click on the
picture of the Circle. Next, select Close Meduim Gaps or Close Large Gaps,
and finally try filling in your shape again.

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When I'm drawing in Flash MX Professional, about 75% of the time, I can't use
the fill tool. I don't know why, but the colour in the box I'm trying to fill
doesn't change. I've tried using the pencil tool to go over all the joints, and
that very rarely works. Please help me with this, I really want to sort this
out.

Pikadam2000

P.S. I'm trying to fill shapes made with the pencil tool on smoothed mode. Is
this part of the problem?

Thanks, but I tried that. It still wouldn't work....

Well, as I say, I go round every single bloomin' edge with the pencil tool,
drawing every line again, and can I tell you, it's damned annoying.
Besides, if it were that, 'Connect gaps' would solve it, so it must be
something else.

Pikadam2000

make sure layer is not locked. make sure layer with lines is selected. make
sure lines aren't grouped or instances of symbols.
try magnifying your stage and filling - usually fill will work better with the
stage de-magnified.

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By any chance the lines are not connected ? They might be distant , tiny , almost invisible
by distant from each other and automatically you not allowed to fill it with any color.


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Rounding won't connect lines, sometimes you must manually drag end to meet.


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upload the shape you can't fill with color and provide link to fla, lets'
see if that's your end or general problem.


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This Doesn't Work With Me Too, What Ever I Try It On. 100% Of The Time.

First, save your Flash Document. Then, upload it to your own webspace and give
us the link.

If you do not have any webspace, open up a yahoo account, and then go to
www.geocities.com. Log in, start a Free Membership account, and finally go to
Easy Upload, to upload your file. Then go to the file manager, rightclick on
your fla file, hit the properties button, and copy the link to the fla file and
give it to us.

Me too.
I've been tracing an old print file that is a jpg... the jpg is on its own
layer in the background, and I create new layers over it, and then draw a
shape... and then go to fill it.... it usually doesn't work... after some
mucking around, I noticed that if I turned off the background jpg image, then
it would fill... so I did that for a while, very successfully... then I zoomed
in a bit, and that seemed to help too...

keep in mind that this was after trying a couple of the suggestions above...

I made sure the layers weren't locked...
I checked 'close large gaps'
I zoomed in a double checked to be sure the lines met...
I checked the lines using only the 'outline,' method as I had read in another
thread here that that mode shows broken lines
is that true?

Nothing worked.
Finally I copied the shape I wanted to fill... pasted it into a new layer, and
then it filled fine...
Aha! I thought, I found the trick... but the very next shape I wanted to fill
wouldn't work...
I then found the 'hide the background image,' trick...
and then I found the 'zooming,' trick...
but which, if any, of these methods is reliable?

Above, a moderator? suggested that fill works better at a certain
magnification...
but I believe he writes, 'zoom in,' and then suggest that fill works better
zoomed out...
???
!!!!