Flex/ActionScript - rotate Sprite around its center

Question

I have created a Sprite in Actionscript and rendered it to a Flex Canvas. Suppose:

var fooShape:Sprite = new FooSpriteSubclass();

fooCanvas.rawChildren.addChild         


        

Answer 1

An alternative solution is to put your object inside another View, move it so that your image's center is at the container's top-left corner, and then rotate the container.

import spark.components.*;

var myContainer:View = new View();
var myImage:Image = new Image();

myContainer.addElement(myImage);
myImage.x = myImage.width / -2;
myImage.y = myImage.height / -2;

addElement(myContainer);

myContainer.rotation = whateverAngle;

One issue might be that the width of the image isn't know at the moment it is created, so you might want to find a way around that. (Hardcode it, or see if myImage.preliminaryWidth works)