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Hey guys,

I have another thread going but since this is a specific question I thought I should make a new one.

I have a shape in my Illustrator right now. What I want to do is draw a line down the middle and then change the fill color of the top half.

In flash, all I would have to do is grab the end of the line and hook it to the edge of the stroke on the shape and it would snap together like nothing. I would then be able to select the fill from the half I want to change and there ya go.

In Illustrator, I've spent the better part of an hour trying to figure out how to do this.

I used the Pen tool to draw the line I want, but now it's sitting there as it's own object and no matter what I do I can't get it to connect to the outside edge of the shape.

I tried the direct selection tool and the pen tool.

This is just so frustrating knowing that I just do this in 2 seconds flat if I were in Flash, but I can't achieve the end result because I need the Illustrator features. . .