ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference for Macromedia® Flash® 8

Rectangle (flash.geom.Rectangle)

Object
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  +-flash.geom.Rectangle

public class Rectangle
extends Object

The Rectangle class is used to create and modify Rectangle objects. A Rectangle object is an area defined by its position, as indicated by its top-left corner point (x, y), and by its width and its height. Be careful when you design these areas—if a rectangle is described as having its upper-left corner at 0,0 and has a height of 10 and a width of 20, the lower-right corner is at 9,19, because the count of width and height began at 0,0.

The x, y, width, and height properties of the Rectangle class are independent of each other; changing the value of one property has no effect on the others. However, the right and bottom properties are integrally ...