[?]change rotation point with code

how do I change the rotation point of a movie clip with code. I know there is a trigonometric way to assign the rotation point to a x and y point.

You make what you want to rotate another movieclip. If you want to move the rotation point to x=20, y=20 , set the inner mc coordinates to that. Then rotate the parent clip and move the parent clip to x=-20,y=-20. Hopefully this should work. :)

thanks but I can't do it that way. I am rotating the stage. I am working on a Vcam that has the ability to rotate. Those who don't know what a Vcam is, its a movie clip that makes zooming in on animation and games easy.

Vcam

do you mean like this:

http://board.flashkit.com/board/showthread.php?t=724142

you just posted a link back to this thread? lol

the never ending circle..........

using Trigonometry? works at least for me

how did you get it to work?

no there is no such thing as a rotation point (pivot) that can be changed in AS1/AS2 but you can shift Values kinda offsetting the object in a way so that it rotates arount a theoretical point.

see atachment of a trig. collection I wrote for myself the 3rd or 4th example is about rotating aroung a given point
you need to rename the attachment extension back to mht (microsoft html archive) and open it either with InternetExplorer or Opera.

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you just posted a link back to this thread? lol

the never ending circle..........

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ah yes, oops sorry about that, it was meant to be a link to some Math.atan2 examples but I must have copied and pasted from the wrong window. Not sure it would have helped any way now I understand your problem.

I don't understand exactly what you are trying to do, but this might help:
Dynamic MovieClip Registration with AS2