Rotation - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-FLASH LITE 1.X ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference

Description
Property; the instance name of the movie clip that specifies. It applies only to movie
my_mc
clips and not to the main timeline.
Example
The following example displays the name of the movie clip in the Output panel as
bigRose
a string:
trace(bigRose:_name);

_rotation

Availability
Flash Lite 1.0.
Usage
my_mc:_rotation
Description
Property; the rotation of the movie clip, in degrees, from its original orientation. Values from
0 to 180 represent clockwise rotation; values from 0 to -180 represent counterclockwise
rotation. Values outside this range are added to or subtracted from 360 to obtain a value
within the range. For example, the statement is the same as
my_mc:_rotation = 450
.
my_mc:_rotation = 90
Example
The following example rotates the movie clip 15 degrees clockwise when the user
my_mc
presses the 2 key:
on (keyPress "2") {
my_mc:_rotation += 15;
}
_rotation 55