Scaling around a center point...

[Bishop, Michael W. CONTR J9C880]

More transform issues!  As you may recall, I add a translate value to move objects around the canvas.  Now I’m working on scaling and I like the scale to be uniform around the center of element.  I get the center point by asking the Element for its bounding box:   centerX = boundingBox.getWidth() – boundingBox.getX(); centerY = boundingBox.getHeight() – boundingBox.getY();   In the SVG Essentials book I have, it says to scale around a center point, the translate should be set to:   translate(-centerX * (factor – 1), -centerY * (factor – 1))   Instead of setting the above, I ADD the above to the existing translate if one exists.  However, when I scale, the element stays nowhere near the center point.  I tried simply SETTING the translate values, losing the previous ones and it’s still wrong.  Is there a better technique for scaling around the center of an element, or is my math just wrong somewhere?   Michael Bishop