contour.orientation

#### Availability

Flash MX 2004.

#### Usage

contour.orientation

#### Description

Read-only property; an integer indicating the orientation of the contour. The value of the integer is -1 if the orientation is counterclockwise, 1 if it is clockwise, and 0 if it is a contour with no area.

#### Example

The following example traverses all the contours of the selected shape and shows the value of the orientation
property of each contour in the Output panel:

javascript
var elt = fl.getDocumentDOM().selection[0];
elt.beginEdit();
var contourArray = elt.contours;
var contourCount = 0;
for (i=0;i<contourArray.length;i++) {
var contour = contourArray[i];
fl.trace("Next Contour, orientation:" + contour.orientation);
contourCount++;
}
elt.endEdit();