Drag and Rotate

Hi all,
i'm working on a projekt, which is a card game and i need to
implement some kind of rotation function.
Actually i can drag, pick up and drop the cards.
Now i want the cards to rotate depending on the movement of
the users mouse when he drags a card.
I tried to do it on my own but i can't figure it out.
As an example of what i mean check this link please:
Thibaud.be
I don't need a complete solution but an advice or a link to a
tutorial that deals with this kind of problem would be very nice.
Thank you very much.

open flash, create a new actionscript file and paste the code
that's below the dotted line into the as file and save as
regPoint.as in the same directory as your project files.
in your project fla attach the following to a frame

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com.sun.el.MethodExpressionImpl@87d9c00d javax.el.ELException: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.util.List
Could you help me to understand why? Below are the details.
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value="#{bindings.MyView1.collectionModel}"
rowSelection="multiple"
columnStretching="last"
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verticalGridVisible="false" fetchSize="-1"
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</af:dropTarget>
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I did try, I obtained this:
java.lang.NullPointerException
Why NullPointerException?
I don't know if this helps, but consider that the collection model comes from a ViewObject built on three EOs with many fields, although the table only shows one column.
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<table IterBinding="MyView1Iterator" id="MyView1">
<AttrNames>
<Item Value="Cod1"/>
<Item Value="Cod2"/>
<Item Value="Cod3"/>
<Item Value="Cod4"/>
<Item Value="Description"/>
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I will see the Key content with the debugger.

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Brandbasher wrote:
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