Andreas Weber wrote:
This thing is driving me crazy.
You're certainly not the first one, if this is any consolation ;-)
The x and y values in the Property Inspector can refer to one of 3 things:
- registration point (the little cross)
but as Martin noted, it's actually not really an indicator of the
registration point -- it's just the upper left corner of the movieclip's
content, so it seems misleading to say in the docs that it's the
registration point. And actually, it's the upper left corner of the
movieclip's content relative to the registration point of its container
(relevant if looking at the x/y of a nested movieclip).
- upper left corner
- transformation/(rotation) point (the little circle), which is purely an
authortime thing
The basic flaw of this part of the GUI is that there is no indication which
is the currently active view.
And how the user - usually inadvertedly - switches between one of these
views is obscure, weird and buggy.
See the comment on this page:
http://livedocs.macromedia.com/flash/mx2004/main_7_2/00000189.html
Thanks for documenting that.
Helen
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