Can you bind a TextField to a drawCircle in AS3?

Question

I am drawing a circle on the stage using graphics.drawCircle that rotates around another circle, and I want to have a textfield that sits inside the moving circle and rotates around with it. Is this possible?

Answer 1

You can make each of your circles draw inside its own Sprite, and just move that sprite around. Then you can use Sprite.addChild to add your TextField as a child.

Answer 2

So you have a rotating circle, with a text. So a rotating circle and text. So a pair of things rotating. So make it one thing! (Like the previous user said).

You got this:

var the_circle_rotating:MovieClip = ...;
var the_text:TextField = ...;

then you do this:

var the_group:Sprite = new Sprite();

the_group.addChild(the_circle_rotating);
the_group.addChild(the_text);

and now instead rotating the circle, you rotate the sprite...