I suspect that the Flash Player folks made this decision on the grounds of usability. Non-mathematicians understand "rotate this graphic by 90 degrees" a lot better than "rotate this graphic by pi/2 radians". Of course, the argument to the sine and cosine functions has to be in radians to meet mathematical convention.
Gordon Smith Adobe Flex SDK Team ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Samuel Colak Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 8:30 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [flexcoders] Unknown discrepancy.. Alex and Guys, anyone understand why for instance displayObject.rotation is in degrees whilst everything else (Math.functions for instance) use radians? Many thanks, Samuel
