Flex/ActionScript - rotate Sprite around its center

Question

I have created a Sprite in Actionscript and rendered it to a Flex Canvas. Suppose:

var fooShape:Sprite = new FooSpriteSubclass();

fooCanvas.rawChildren.addChild         


        

Answer 1

Didn't have much luck with the other examples. This one worked for me. I used it on a UIComponent.

http://www.selikoff.net/2010/03/17/solution-to-flex-image-rotation-and-flipping-around-center/

private static function rotateImage(image:Image, degrees:Number):void {
// Calculate rotation and offsets
var radians:Number = degrees * (Math.PI / 180.0);
var offsetWidth:Number = image.contentWidth/2.0;
var offsetHeight:Number =  image.contentHeight/2.0;

// Perform rotation
var matrix:Matrix = new Matrix();
matrix.translate(-offsetWidth, -offsetHeight);
matrix.rotate(radians);
matrix.translate(+offsetWidth, +offsetHeight);
matrix.concat(image.transform.matrix);
image.transform.matrix = matrix;

}