Zooming a loaded bitmap around the image center

Question

Hi,
I try to zoom a loaded PNG where the center of the image
stays at the
middle of the stage.
I don't know everyting I do leads me to a clip moving away
from the
center of the stage.
What I do is zooming a clip that contains the clip that is
loaded. I set
the loaded Clip at the negative half of its size, so it
should aprear in
the middle.
onClipEvent(load){
pic_container_mc.loadMovie("pic.png");
//picLoaded() < it is called from the clip
// pic_container_mc at onLoad event
// when the bytestotal are > 1000
function picLoaded(){
pic_container_mc._alpha = 0;
pic_container_mc.onEnterFrame= function(){
this._alpha = this._alpha * 1,2;
this._alpha++;
_parent._xscale++;
_parent._yscale = _parent._xscale;
w = pic_container_mc._width;
h = pic_container_mc._height;
pic_container_mc._x = - w/2;
pic_container_mc._y = - h/2;
// half of the strange size
this._x = 512;
this._y = 384;
Any ideas?

Answer 1

Craig Grummitt wrote:
> i'm not sure of the intention of some of your code as
the indentations got lost
- picture of different size
- with an motive with its center in the middle of the bitmap
- zoom it, but keep the center point at one position (center
of the stage)
> and i can't compile it as it's written.. also I'm not
sure of some of the
> things you were doing like this line:
> this._alpha = this._alpha * 1,2;
oh, thats just for fading the picture in, but not important
here.
> but anyway i've edited the function in a way that works
for me. see if this
> solves your problem.
did you attatch the code? can't see it in the newsgroup
forum. can you
please post it again.
Thanks for your help