actually, I'm not sure if localToGlobal does anything with the scaling.
I have the feeling it simply adds coordinates of parent movieclips to the
local
ones..
On 4/24/06, Meinte van't Kruis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> getBounds doesn't really help, as I'm also tracing it, and it doesn't seem
> to change one way or the other. (same
> with getRect)
>
> to Bernard: I have tried using localToGlobal and the other variant, but
> no matter what I do
> it doesn't really change values somehow (or maybe i'm doing it wrong).
> Could you post
> an example as to where, in the boxscaling example, localtoglobal actually
> outputs
> something different than say the common _x coordinate?
>
> Actually the bigger scope of the problem is finding out the positions of
> movieclips within a
> parent movieclip which is scaled, I've twidled with some options, but none
> seem to work :(.
>
> and to Mark: I didn't actually mean to sound sarcastic, I really did
> thought that perhaps
> using the coordinates of the centerpoint in the algorithm would do
> something meaningfull,
> but alas, it didnt, but no hard feelings :).
>
> thanks for the help,
> Meinte
>
>
> On 4/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > When the registration point is not the top-left corner of your clip, you
> > might
> > want to check the MovieClip.getBounds() method, it's very handy.
> >
> > Tim.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, 24 April 2006 18:45, Meinte van't Kruis wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > I have a problem correctly figuring out the actual x value of the
> > top-left
> > > corner of a movieclip when scaling it.
> > > To demonstrate to this:
> > >
> > > put movieclip t on stage(a black box). Edit it, so that it's left top
> > > corner isn't on the movieclip centerpoint.
> > >
> > > this code on stage:
> > >
> > > onEnterFrame=function(){
> > > t._xscale++;
> > > trace(t._x);
> > > trace(t.getBounds().xMin);
> > > trace(t.getRect().xMin);
> > > }
> > >
> > > if you execute it, you can clearly see the top-left corner is in fact
> > > moving, due to the scaling.
> > > But the values never change. So my question is:
> > >
> > > how do I know the coordinates of the topleft corner of an
> > (off-centered)
> > > movieclip, or
> > > the coordinates of the topright corner of a centered movieclip while
> > > scaling it?
> > >
> > > I'm really stuck on this, help would be very much appreciated.
> > >
> > > greetings,
> > > Meinte
> >
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