Question

I’m banging my head against a wall with this one. I have raphael js version 2.0 and I need to make images rotate in a way that’s cross-browser. I would love to do it in CSS3, but not all browsers support what I need to do.

so, after racking my brain, I went to the Raphael playground and tried out some code in there. Doesn’t work there either. What’s going on here?

go to playground: http://raphaeljs.com/playground.html
run this code, should see an outline of a square.
paper.rect(100, 100, 300,300).animate({rotation:”-45″}, 2000);

using transform works:

paper.rect(100, 100, 300,300).animate({transform:”r45″}, 2000);

but unfortunately with transform, I can’t seem to specify a centerpoint. I want the object to rotate off the bottom-left corner. I can do that with this code:

paper.rect(100, 100, 300,300).rotate(45,0,300)

but that doesn’t animate, or accept easing, or have any callbacks.

I’ve seen “rotation” in several examples including these:

http://www.irunmywebsite.com/raphael/additionalhelp.php#PAGETOP
http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/an-introduction-to-the-raphael-js-library/

thanks,
– keith

Answer 1

The rotation attribute seems to be missing from the 2.0 specification. It existed in 1.x. I don’t know why this is so, but I can’t find it in the new documentation. I expect this is an oversight that will be corrected in a minor revision going forward.

In the meantime, you can create your own animation handler and call .rotate on each tick based on your own easing.