Adobe Flash/Animate - transformation point equivalent in Actionscript 3 - actionscript-3

When you're using the Flash/Animate IDE and you select something on the stage with the Free Transform Tool, then move the transformation point (the white circle), what is it actually doing in frame script? DisplayObjects only have x and y properties, there's no transformX or transformY.
I have a MovieClip place on the stage through the Flash IDE with various transformations applied to it, and I would like to be able to replicate those in Actionscript.

When you're creating a display object in IDE, moving transformation point makes IDE move everything inside that object in reverse direction coordinates wise. It's like if you're moving a zero point of a local coordinates system, leaving everything else intact, the contents will then have their coordinates altered.
In order to simulate this behavior, you can nest your display object being created into a container sprite, then when your user drags transformation center, you move the wrapper sprite to the new coordinates and alter its nested object's ( the one with all the contents) coordinates by negative delta between old and new positions of virtual zero.

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How to zoom and pan a gameobject not the whole scene in unity

I have several images in my scene, I managed to make the zoom and pan work but the problem is, All of the images are zooming in at the same time. The scripts are place on each gameobject. I used gameobject for the images.
You need apply a filter so you just appli the transformations to one game object, since every one of them are GameObjects I recommend use raycast to sellect an object and then activate his Zoom.cs script just for this object.
I sugest to use just one Zoom.cs in the scene instead of every object having his own copy, then change your function to work with one game object as a paremeter and, when you touch your game object then that object will be the one to suffer the transformation.
If you doesn't want to implement a raycast or change your function at all, then you could set all the images inside a matrix, or use an index system, the central image, or the index you designed, will be the one to suffer the transformations. so you can scroll betwen your gaery and be sure that just the image that you designate in your matrix/index will be the choosen one. The trouble here is that you need to fully control the scroll animation so no one of the images will be in a wrong place like in between two index.

How can i convert a Quad to a Rectangle using Starling on Flash Develop (AS3)?

I wish to use the "intersects" (from Starling) to create a collision, but i don't know how to convert my Quad "player" and my Quad "block" to Rectangles.
Can someone help?
Quad contains a getBounds public method that returns a new rectangle (or an updated one if passed in on the second param), so:
var playerRect:Rectangle = quadPlayer.getBounds(this);
var blockRect:Rectangle = blockPlayer.getBounds(this);
if (playerRect.intersects(blockRect)) {
trace("Collision!");
}
Now, I am using this as I do not know your display list hierarchy and this do not know which coordinate system your quads are in, so adjust accordingly.
http://doc.starling-framework.org/current/starling/display/DisplayObject.html
Transforming coordinates
Within the display tree, each object has its own local coordinate system. If you rotate a container, you rotate that coordinate system - and thus all the children of the container.
Sometimes you need to know where a certain point lies relative to another coordinate system. That's the purpose of the method getTransformationMatrix. It will create a matrix that represents the transformation of a point in one coordinate system to another.
http://doc.starling-framework.org/current/starling/display/Quad.html
getBounds(targetSpace:DisplayObject, out:Rectangle = null):Rectangle
[override] Returns a rectangle that completely encloses the object as it appears in another coordinate system.

Find points in a MotionPath between frames (AS3)

I need to find the position of not-keyframe points in a motion path drawn on the stage.
What I can do is to find the position of the mc that is following the object at every frame (red dots) but I don't know how to access the MotionPath data to try to calculate intermediate positions.
One of the option is to create your motion path Pro grammatically check this example
Create a Motion Guide Programmatically
Another option if you want to continue working with path tool in flash , is to work on timebased instead of framebased

Dragging an object along a drawn path

Same as the question:
I need to drag a component along a programmatically drawn path composed by different kinds of graphic, like lines, curves, etc.
I've already googled it, but with no success.
Any ideas? thanks!
The following is say for a linearly curved path drawn by you. You can use similar method for any direction.
Add an Event listener for click.
(That starts drag)
Track the user's mouse along x
direction for example.
Keep plotting the component's x & y as
Mouse x changes with respect to the
drawn path's x.
Stop relocating as user leaves the
mouse
Start with this if possible & be back with code if you get doubts.
If your drawing part is complete then You can use two dimensional ByteArray. The size of the ByteArray will be the size of your stage, this two-dimensional array will be set to zero, means all your stage locations are set to zero. When any curve or line is drawn , set those locations to one. Now you know at-least where your object can move, the valid locations are those which are set to one.
Now the second the part is how to move an object on the valid path or location using mouse or keyboard.
You will be using Event.EnterFrame for smooth and fast movement of the object,
1--using keyboard.
use up key to move object to upper location if that position or location is set to one else the object will not move Up, same for others.
2-- using mouse move event, detect MouseY position for moving UP or DOWN w.r.t current position of MouseY , and move it respectively if location is set to one.
Hope, this will guide you in right direction...
Will this work? http://www.pixeldigest.com/followthepath.html

Trying to convert openGL to MFC coordinates and having Problems with "gluProject"

To clarify things, what i am trying to do is to get the openGL coordinates and manipulate them in my mfc code. not to get an openGL object. i'm using the mfc to control the position of the objects in the openGL.
Hi, i'm trying to find the naswer on the web and can't find a full solution that i can use and that will work...
I'm developing a MFC project with static picture as the canvas for an openGL class that draw the grphics for my game.
On moush down, i need to retrive a shape coordinate from the openGL class.
I'm looking for a way to convert the openGL coordinates to MFC coordinates but no matter what i try i get junk after using the gluProject or gluUnProject (i've tried to do both ways but non is working)
GLdouble modelMatrix[16];
glGetDoublev(GL_MODELVIEW_MATRIX,modelMatrix);
GLdouble projMatrix[16];
glGetDoublev(GL_PROJECTION_MATRIX,projMatrix);
int viewport[4];
glGetIntegerv(GL_VIEWPORT,viewport);
POINT mouse; // Stores The X And Y Coords For The Current Mouse Position
GetCursorPos(&mouse); // Gets The Current Cursor Coordinates (Mouse Coordinates)
ScreenToClient(hWnd, &mouse);
GLdouble winX, winY, winZ; // Holds Our X, Y and Z Coordinates
winX; = (float)point.x; // Holds The Mouse X Coordinate
winY; = (float)point.y; // Holds The Mouse Y Coordinate
winY = (float)viewport[3] - winY;
glReadPixels(winX, winY, 1, 1, GL_DEPTH_COMPONENT, GL_FLOAT, &winZ);
GLdouble posX=s1->getPosX(), posY=s1->getPosY(), posZ=s1->getPosZ(); // Hold The Final Values
gluUnProject( winX, winY, winZ, modelMatrix, projMatrix, viewport, &posX, &posY, &posZ);
gluProject(posX, posY, posZ, modelMatrix, projMatrix, viewport, &winX, &winY, &winZ);
This is just part of the code i've tried. ofcourse not gluProject and gluUnProject together. just had them both here to show.....and i know there is lots of junk over there, its from some of my tries...
p.s. i've tried many many more combinations and examples from the web and nothing seem to work in my case....
Can any one show me what is the right way to do the transformation?
10x
It looks like you're trying to retrieve the object (or objects) that is/are at a particular point. If this is the case, gluProject and/or gluUnProject isn't really a very suitable tool for the task. OpenGL has a selection mode intended specifically for this kind of task.
In typical use, you specify a small square (e.g., 5x5 pixels) around the mouse click spot with gluPickMatrix, set selection mode with glRenderMode, set a buffer with glSwelectBuffer, and then draw your scene. The drawing doesn't go to the screen, but fills the buffer you specified wiyh records of what was drawn within the specified area.