# Rotate items?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotate-items/205774>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [November 1, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotate-items/205774 "2006-11-01T21:17:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Navarone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Navarone](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Navarone)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2006, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotate-items/205774/1 "2006-11-01T21:17:32Z")

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I am having trouble rotating items I click on after I have added them to the stage. I can rotate the last item added but if I click off and click a different item I am unable to rotate it. Can someone show me how this would be done.

```auto

_global.count = 0;
function newPiece() {
 // create a movieclip to hold the functionality of the peice of furniture
 // keep all the furniture inside 1 clip (called 'pieceContainer') for organizational purposes
 // var count:Number = floor.pieceContainer.getNextHighestDepth();
 var item_mc:MovieClip = pieceContainer.createEmptyMovieClip("item_mc"+count, count, this.getNextHighestDepth());
 // create a container to load the furniture swf into
 var container:MovieClip = item_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("container_mc", 0);
 container._x = 0;
 container._y = 0;
 // setup a MCL to handle the swf's loading, when its loaded, apply the freeTransform methods to it. 
 item_mc.mcl = new MovieClipLoader();
 item_mc.mcl.addListener(mclListener_2);
 item_mc.mcl.loadClip("decals/"+this.piece+".swf", container);
 count++;
 //
 //add value of width and depth to text box  
 item_w.text = j;
 item_h.text = k;
}
//
//
var mclListener_2:Object = new Object();
mclListener_2.onLoadInit = function(mc:MovieClip) {
 // set variables to remember the original dimensions
 _global.axw = mc._width;
 _global.axh = mc._height;
 // center piece  
 mc._y = -(axh/2);
 mc._x = -(axw/2);
 // 
 pieceContainer._x = floor._x+(wide/2);
 pieceContainer._y = floor._y+(high/2);
 // set drag boundries 
 left = -(wide/2)+axw/2;
 top = -(high/2)+axh/2;
 right = (wide/2)-axw/2;
 bottom = (high/2)-axh/2;
 //
 var pItem = mc;
 //
 mc._parent.onPress = function() {
  //trace(pItem);  
  this.startDrag(false, left, top, right, bottom);
 };
 mc._parent.onRelease = function() {
  stopDrag();
  _global.pX = this._x;
  _global.pY = this._y;
 };
 //
 rotate_btn.onRelease = function() {
  pItem._rotation += 45;
 };
};

```