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Archive for March, 2009
Resizing a Parent Sprite Without Resizing the Child Sprite
Mar 26th
A co-worker approached me with a problem today. He wanted to resize a parent Sprite (or MovieClip, DisplayObject, etc) without resizing the child Sprite. So, in a nutshell, here’s how you do it:
[ActionScript]
_mcParent._mcChild.scaleX = 1 / _mcParent.scaleX;
_mcParent._mcChild.scaleY = 1 / _mcParent.scaleY;
_mcParent._mcChild.x = _nChildStartX / _mcParent.scaleX;
_mcParent._mcChild.y = _nChildStartY / _mcParent.scaleY;
[/ActionScript]
And here’s a simple demo to illustrate the problem and the solution:
