ActionScript 3.0 :: Centering Objects With Inconsistent Reg Points?
Oct 19, 2009
I've always struggled with this sort of stuff, dunno why:
I'm making a vertically scrolling menu with a series of thumbnails. The thumbnails are of various widths& heights. They also have registration points in inconsistent places (ie, not always the same). I want to scale and position the thumbs so that they are all central to the containing menu section. It's probably something to do with adding a container sprite/mc and stuff but I've messed about with it and nowt works.
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Code: Select all////////////// BEGIN CODE ////////////////////////
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Code:
trace(typeof(Number(435/100)))
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In the order listed above, I get the following trace when I export via Flash CS3 (9.0) on my PPC mac:
number
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number
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false
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Code:
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[code]....
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[code]....
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