Comments on: getBounds() on DisplayObject not functioning properly

By: _Ric_

_Ric_ — Mon, 02 May 2011 16:23:03 +0000

Great bit of code - just what I needed to get the bounds of a masked movieclip. Thanks.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 02:04:09 +0000

Thanks so much. This did exactly what I needed it to do. I was wanting to find the real boundaries around a text field (the textField class always leaves padding on all sides)… getBounds just gave me dimensions of the TextField (not much more than turning the border on). Your function allowed me to shrink that border to fit the text precisely.

Thanks!

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 05:48:00 +0000

All I have to say is you are a life saver, this works perfectly. getBounds wasnt working for me in my situation and was always off by serveral pixels sometimes, where this works every time.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:36:33 +0000

cool

By: Adrian Parr

Adrian Parr — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:16:38 +0000

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for sharing this code. It is really handy. I have used it to to do bitmapData.draw() on a masked movieclip. Which I was having problems with until I found your post.

I have posted my code to Snipplr …

http://snipplr.com/view/32341/as3-bitmapdatadraw-with-masked-displayobject/

Cheers,

Adrian