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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
Example
The following example creates a movie clip instance dynamically, rotates, and loads an image into
the instance.
this.createEmptyMovieClip("image_mc", 1);
image_mc._rotation = 15;
image_mc.loadMovie("http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/blueprint/articles/
nielsen/spotlight_jnielsen.jpg");
See also
TextField._rotation
MovieClip.setMask()
Availability
Flash Player 6.
Usage
my_mc.setMask(mask_mc:Object) : Void
Parameters
The instance name of a movie clip to be masked.
my_mc
The instance name of a movie clip to be a mask.
mask_mc
Returns
Nothing.
Description
Method; makes the movie clip in the parameter
specified by the
This method allows multiple-frame movie clips with complex, multilayered content to act as
masks. You can shut masks on and off at runtime. However, you can't use the same mask for
multiple masks (which is possible by using mask layers). If you have device fonts in a masked
movie clip, they are drawn but not masked. You can't set a movie clip to be its own mask—for
example,
my_mc.setMask(my_mc)
If you create a mask layer that contains a movie clip, and then apply the
the call takes priority and this is not reversible. For example, you could have a movie
setMask()
clip in a mask layer called
. If, as the SWF file plays, you call
UIMaskee
is masked by
UIMask
my_mc._rotation = 450
parameter.
my_mc
.
that masks another layer containing another movie clip called
UIMask
.
UIMaskee
is the same as
a mask that reveals the movie clip
mask_mc
UIMask.setMask(UIMaskee)
my_mc._rotation = 90
method to it,
setMask()
, from that point on,
MovieClip.setMask()
.
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