quality (BevelFilter.quality property) -- Version 8

The number of times to apply the filter. The default value is 1, which is equivalent to low quality. A value of 2 is medium quality, and a value of 3 is high quality. Filters with lower values are rendered more quickly.

For most applications, a quality value of 1, 2, or 3 is sufficient. Although you can use additional numeric values up to 15 to achieve different effects, larger values are rendered more slowly. Instead of increasing the value of quality, you can often get a similar effect, and with faster rendering, by simply increasing the values of blurX and blurY.

Example

The following example changes the quality property on the existing MovieClip instance (rect) when a user clicks it:

import flash.filters.BevelFilter;

var rect:MovieClip = createBevelRectangle("BevelQuality");
rect.onRelease = function() {
    var filter:BevelFilter = this.filters[0];
    filter.quality = 1;
    this.filters = new Array(filter);
}

function createBevelRectangle(name:String):MovieClip {
    var w:Number = 100;
    var h:Number = 100;
    var bgColor:Number = 0x00CC00;

    var rect:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip(name, this.getNextHighestDepth());
    rect.beginFill(bgColor);
    rect.lineTo(w, 0);
    rect.lineTo(w, h);
    rect.lineTo(0, h);
    rect.lineTo(0, 0);
    rect._x = 20;
    rect._y = 20;

    var filter:BevelFilter = new BevelFilter(5, 45, 0xFFFF00, .8, 0x0000FF, .8, 20, 20, 1, 3, "inner", false);
    rect.filters = new Array(filter);
    return rect;
}