Actionscript 3.0

AS3 Basics: Rotate a movieclip with actionscript 3.0

Just a quick tutorial to go along side my AS2 version of rotation.

Setting up:

Draw a box on the stage, Select it and press ‘F8′.

Name you’re movieclip and press ‘OK’.

Now change the instance name to ‘myMovieClip’ and press enter.

Now for the code:

place this code in frame 1 of you’re actions panel:

function Main()
{
    // Adding mouse event to our stage!
    stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, doTheTrace);
}

Main();

function doTheTrace(e:Event)
{
    myMovieClip.rotation += 0.5;
}

Test you’re movie by pressing CTRL+RETURN.

If you’ve managed to follow my bad instructions then you should get a slowly rotating shape.

like this:

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