progressbar.x migration on scaleX

[mark_vdi]

Hi just a small point which might help somebody:

 

If I want a loadProgressBar as a rectangle at say x=20 and y= 20 and create it using

. . .

loadProgressBar.graphic.drawRect(20,20,100,10);

. . .

rather than:

. . .

loadProgressBar.graphic.drawRect(0,20,100,10);

loadProgressBar.x = 20;

. . .

when loadProgress scales the loadProgressBar.scaleX from 0 to 100 the actual bar migrates from x = 0 to the final x set by the graphic.drawRect command in this case 20 . . . I don't know why it does this but 'hard' setting the .x to 20 removes the behavior.

 

Mark

[Carl]

thanks for posting your solution.

 

just as a note, you should always make sure the contents of the object you are scaling have an x of 0 when scaling horizontally.

items will scale from the registration point.

 

if you went into the Flash IDE

 

> create a move clip called bar

> draw a rectangle in side of bar with an x of 20, width of 100, height of 10

 

go back to scene 1 and scale bar left to right.

 

the same offset will appear as you scale.

 

as the object gets bigger, the distance between the rectangle and registration point is going to get bigger too. make sense?

 

 

the IDE steps outlined are virtually the same as what happens when you draw to the graphic layer of a displayObject.