# How to make a draggable point rotate about the circumference of a circle?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-a-draggable-point-rotate-about-the-circumference-of-a-circle/220401>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 26, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-a-draggable-point-rotate-about-the-circumference-of-a-circle/220401 "2007-03-26T02:28:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![bitsnpieces](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@bitsnpieces](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bitsnpieces)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2007, 2:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-a-draggable-point-rotate-about-the-circumference-of-a-circle/220401/1 "2007-03-26T02:28:57Z")

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Hello.

I’m in need of some help to make a point rotate about the circumference of a circle upon dragging.

How do I go about doing it? Is there something to do with the startDrag(…); ?

From what I have right now, I can move the point but not on the circumference of the circle.