User Guide

370 ActionScript classes

■ The area below the rectangle

■ The area in the lower-right corner outside the rectangle

You can think of the eight regions outside of the center (defined by the rectangle) as a picture

frame that has special rules applied to it when the button is scaled.

When the

scale9Grid property is set and a button is scaled, all text and gradients are scaled

normally; however, for other types of objects the following rules apply:

■ Content in the center region is scaled normally.

■ Content in the corners is not scaled.

■ Content in the top and bottom regions is scaled only horizontally. Content in the left and

right regions is scaled only vertically.

If a button is rotated, all subsequent scaling is normal, and the

scale9Grid property is

ignored.

A common use for the

scale9Grid property is to set up a button in which edge lines retain

the same width when the button is scaled.

For more information, including illustrations and a related example, see

MovieClip.scale9Grid.

Availability: ActionScript 1.0; Flash Player 8