AS3: Resizing Sprite without resizing its children

[maguskrool]

Hi.

I have a class called GalleryItem that extends Sprite. Each GalleryItem has a Loader that loads an image of variable dimensions into it. Now, I want to be able to change the GalleryItem's dimensions without affecting its contents' dimensions. How can I do that?

Thanks in advance.

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[kennethkawamoto]

If you resize a Sprite, all of its children will be resized too.

But Sprite is just a transparent container, it doesn't make sense to resize it - the size of a Sprite is the size of its contents.

Or does your Sprite have the background and you want to resize that? If that's the case, instead of drawing the background to the Sprite's graphics, create a child Sprite and draw the background to it. Then you can resize this child Sprite without effecting other siblings in the parent Sprite. (Or redraw the background again in new size.)

Kenneth Kawamoto

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