# Rotating MC

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotating-mc/351917
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 8, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotating-mc/351917 "2014-10-08T21:29:13Z")
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### Author: ![scottiescotsman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ac91a4/32.png) [@scottiescotsman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/scottiescotsman)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2014, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotating-mc/351917/1 "2014-10-08T21:29:13Z")

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Hi guys 🙂  
What I have is a Movieclip[volumeScrubber] which Is rotating circle like and works ok.  
All I want to do is to get the MovieClip to face into the centre always.

[AS]  
var radius:Number = 36;  
var angle:Number = 0;  
var angleConvert:Number = Math.PI;

makeScrubber();

function onMove(e:MouseEvent):void  
{  
angle = Math.atan2(mouseY , mouseX);  
volumeScrubber.x = radius \* Math.cos(angle);  
volumeScrubber.y = radius \* Math.sin(angle);  
volumeScrubber.rotation = angleConvert \* angle + 180;  
}  
function onDown(e:MouseEvent):void  
{  
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE\_MOVE, onMove);  
stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE\_UP, onUp);  
}  
function onUp(e:MouseEvent):void  
{  
stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE\_MOVE, onMove);  
stage.removeEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE\_UP, onUp);  
}

function makeScrubber():void {  
volumeScrubber.buttonMode = volumeScrubber.useHandCursor = true;  
volumeScrubber.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE\_DOWN, onDown);  
}  
[/AS]

please help  
Steven 🙂

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### Author: ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2014, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/rotating-mc/351917/2 "2014-10-08T22:30:01Z")

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What is the center? It looks like you have some rotation code in there already. What does that do? Always point to the top left?