User Guide

1084 Chapter 14: Properties
One significant difference between the viewScale and scale properties is that viewScale
always scales from the center of the sprite’s bounding rectangle, whereas
scale scales from a point
determined by the Flash movie’s
originMode property.
This property can be tested and set.
Note: This property must be set to the default value if the scaleMode property is set to #autoSize, or
the sprite will not display correctly.
Example
This sprite script sets up a Flash movie sprite and doubles its view scale:
-- Lingo syntax
property spriteNum
on beginSprite me
sprite(spriteNum).viewScale = 200
end
// JavaScript syntax
function beginSprite() {
sprite(this.spriteNum).viewScale = 200;
}
See also
scaleMode, viewV, viewPoint, viewH
viewV
Usage
-- Lingo syntax
memberOrSpriteObjRef.viewV
// JavaScript syntax
memberOrSpriteObjRef.viewV;
Description
Cast member and sprite property; controls the vertical coordinate of a Flash movie and vector
shape’s view point, specified in pixel units. The values can be floating-point numbers. The default
value is 0.
A Flash movie’s view point is set relative to its origin point.
Setting a positive value for
viewV shifts the movie up inside the sprite; setting a negative value
shifts the movie down. Therefore, changing the
viewV property can have the effect of cropping
the movie or even of removing the movie from view entirely.
This property can be tested and set.
Note: This property must be set to the default value if the scaleMode property is set to #autoSize, or
the sprite will not display correctly.