Flash CS4 Resources

document.getSelectionRect()

Availability

Flash MX 2004.

Usage

document.getSelectionRect()

Parameters

None.

Returns

The bounding rectangle of the current selection, or 0 if nothing is selected. For information on the format of the return value, see document.addNewRectangle().

Description

Method; gets the bounding rectangle of the current selection. If a selection is non-rectangular, the smallest rectangle encompassing the entire selection is returned. The rectangle is based on the document space or, when in edit mode, the registration point (also origin point or zero point) of the symbol being edited.

Example

The following example gets the bounding rectangle for the current selection and then displays its properties:

var newRect = fl.getDocumentDOM().getSelectionRect(); 
var outputStr = "left: " + newRect.left + " top: " + newRect.top + " right: " + newRect.right + " bottom: " + newRect.bottom; 
alert(outputStr);