jasonsfoster schrieb: > Hi everyone, > > Apologies if I've missed this somewhere in any documentation or in > previous postings, but what is the most popular way of creating and > rotating symbols? > > >From what I can see the best method is create a symbol at (0,0) and > then instantiate it via a use element elsewhere on the page. Is there > a significant drawback in creating a new symbol each time you want to > create one with the correct rotation, placement etc? > > The main reason I ask is that when rotating a use symbol, it appears > to rotate around one of the corners, therefore actually moving the > element to the wrong location. Is there a simple method of rotating a > use element around a particular point of that element (i.e. centre)? > > Ideally, I just want it to rotate around the centre of the use > element, to effectively "spin" it on it's centrepoint. > > Again, apologies if this is answered elsewhere. > > Thanks in advance, > Jason
Hi Jason rotate() expects one or 3 parameters, if you provide 3 the last two are the center of rotation. to calculate the center of a use element, is cx=x+width/2; cy=y+height/2. <use x="50" y="100" xlink:href="#ms" width="50" height="50" transform="rotate(45,75,125)"/> the above example is equivalent to this syntax, <use x="50" y="100" xlink:href="#ms" width="50" height="50" transform="translate(75,125) rotate(45) translate(-75,-125)" fill="red"/> which you will need to scale at a specific point. hth Holger ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hsbqqaa/M=362329.6886308.7839368.1510227/D=groups/S=1706030389:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1122895954/A=2894321/R=0/SIG=11dvsfulr/*http://youthnoise.com/page.php?page_id=1992 ">Fair play? Video games influencing politics. Click and talk back!</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ----- To unsubscribe send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- visit http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers and click "edit my membership" ---- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/svg-developers/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
