How to stretch a rectangle with actionscript?

[edawg1120]

function CreateRectangle (X, Y, XLength, YLength)
{
	
	this.createEmptyMovieClip("rectangle_mc", 0);
	drawRoundedRectangle(rectangle_mc, XLength, YLength, 0, 0xFFFFFF, 50);
	rectangle_mc._x = X;
	rectangle_mc._y = Y;
	function drawRoundedRectangle(target_mc:MovieClip, boxWidth:Number, boxHeight:Number, cornerRadius:Number, fillColor:Number, fillAlpha:Number):Void {
    with (target_mc) {

        beginFill(fillColor, fillAlpha);
        moveTo(cornerRadius, 0);
        lineTo(boxWidth - cornerRadius, 0);
        curveTo(boxWidth, 0, boxWidth, cornerRadius);
        lineTo(boxWidth, cornerRadius);
        lineTo(boxWidth, boxHeight - cornerRadius);
        curveTo(boxWidth, boxHeight, boxWidth - cornerRadius, boxHeight);
        lineTo(boxWidth - cornerRadius, boxHeight);
        lineTo(cornerRadius, boxHeight);
        curveTo(0, boxHeight, 0, boxHeight - cornerRadius);
        lineTo(0, boxHeight - cornerRadius);
        lineTo(0, cornerRadius);
        curveTo(0, 0, cornerRadius, 0);
        lineTo(cornerRadius, 0);
        endFill();
		}
	}
}

Then I call it by this

 
CreateRectangle (120, 335, 520, 75);

How do I slowly strech it?

Thanks
-Evan

[whispers]

your actually redrawing the rectangle everytime...

[Ronze]

You can stretch it simply by making the _width of the container MovieClip larger...

[edawg1120]

I want to slowly stretch it though

[whispers]

Ronze- (good catch)

ed- how?..like with another button click or something?

you can then just EASE it then...but you'll have to have a way to input the sizes.. to want to tween to.

[Ronze]

??... I thought he just wanted to make the box wider, and this could be done by calling the _width of the mc in a function e.g. within a setInterval or something...

Don't understand your question whispers...

[whispers]

I thought he wants to 'tween' the square...and not have it 'jump' to a new size.??


and in order for you to do that..you would need to know the NEW size of the square he wants no?

right now..he only has a function that DRAWS his rectanlges on the stage at a predetermined size...right?

so to EASE/TWEEN his current 'rectanlge' we need that clips size...AS WELL AS the NEW size he wants it to be...right?

so right now he only calls that ONE fucntion to intially to create the rectangle..

the needs to be a way for him to trigger the NEW size function..as well as what parameters (size) he wants.

so is this another button with a hardcoded function? input fields? what & how is this new function goin got be triggered. my comment to you was, good catch on seeing that is was being created in a containerClip (I missed that)..and since this is a redraw function, using your suggestion was a good idea..

[Ronze]

:-)