Fireworks Hitbox Tool

Fireworks is my tool of choice when doing design mock-ups. I use Fireworks to work up scale, hitboxes, etc. My method for making hitboxes has always been to draw the boxes, check their dimensions in the Properties inspector and then write it on screen using the text tool.

THERE"S GOT TO BE A BETTER WAY!

I just wanted to display the size of the box on-screen so I wrote an extension for Fireworks that does just that. Here is a red and a green hitbox.

AutoShape Hitboxes

Just drop these in your Fireworks CS3 or MX AutoShapes folder (.../Adobe Fireworks CS3\Configuration\Auto Shapes). Use the control point in the bottom right to scale.

Here is an example of them being used.