Please help...Need to rotate image/MC by moving mouse

Question

Hi all,
I'm sure a lot of you have seen the tutorials for buttonless
scrolling (where you move your cursor to the right of the screen
and the movieclip scrolls to the left etc). Here is an excellent
example...
http://www.gotoandlearn.com/
(and then scroll down until you get to the title, 'Scrolling
Thumbnail Panel'.
Now, I want to use this principle to rotate a MC of the world
instead of scrolling the MC left and right. So, as your cursor
moves to the right of the screen, the globe rotates in an
anti-clockwise direction and visa versa.
Could anyone help moderate the code below (or provide new
code) to make this work? I've tried a few things but none of them
work. Thanks!! (Really need this for campaign at work!! Panicking a
bit).
FG.
the code...
panel.onRollOver = panelOver;
function panelOver() {
this.onEnterFrame = scrollPanel;
delete this.onRollOver;
var b = stroke.getBounds(_root);
function scrollPanel() {
if(_xmouse<b.xMin || _xmouse>b.xMax ||
_ymouse<b.yMin || _ymouse>b.yMax) {
this.onRollOver = panelOver;
delete this.onEnterFrame;
if(panel._x >= 89) {
panel._x = 89;
if(panel._x <= -751) {
panel._x = -751;
var xdist = _xmouse - 250;
panel._x += Math.round(-xdist / 7);
}

Answer 1

OK, I've got a script that is a lot easier and DOES rotate
the m/c! It's:
var mouseList:Object = {};
Mouse.addListener(mouseList);
mouseList.onMouseMove = function(){
worldMC._rotation = _xmouse;
But it stops when my cursor does. In the scrolling example,
the further right your cursor goes, the more the horizontal MC
scrolls. Only when the cursor is in the centre of the screen does
the globe stop rotating.
So what I really need here is a globe that starts to rotate
anti-clockwise when the cursor is moved to the right...the further
right it goes, the faster it rotates. When the cursor moves to a
central location, the speed of the globe's rotation slows to a stop
(allowing the user to click onto a point on the globe).
If you've given the example I linked to above a go, this
should be a little clearer. It's hard to put into writing, but I
hope you get the idea. Looking forward to hearing from you.
FG.