Re: FLASH: setting a variable from the location of an instance

[Gabriel Mulzer]

1. no matter what your clips are called in the library,

  you only can call it by the instances name (I am not sure if you do so )

2. its hard tell about your pathnames, because its not clear to me in which 

clip is placed in which timeline

3. to retrive a property with GetProperty, the path/andname must be in "" 

also, otherwise it is regarded as a varible name


hope this helped a little


_gabriel


At 11:47 31.08.00 +0100, you wrote:

>Hi flash crafters

>

>I'm currently wrestling with a moving menu system and it's got me in a

>Double Nelson at the moment!

>

>I've set up a draggable movie clip called mouse_pos, instance name; movie

>which follows the mouse around the screen.  I have to do this in order to

>retrieve the mouse coordinates.  Fine.  But now I want to set another

>movieclip to move with it/towards it (eventually).

>

>So I made a movie clip (called; moving_base instancename; base) in a lower

>layer and tried to make a frame script to set the coordinates of this new

>clip to track those of the mouse_pos instance, something like this;

>

>Set Variable "loc_y" = GetProperty (mouse_pos,_y)   // see note below

>Set Property ("/menu_base/base", Y Position) = loc_y

>

>Note:  I think my problem is here in the usage/targeting of the Set

>function.  I've tried a few things including level0/mousepos and

>mousepos/movie and also setting the Property directly from the GetProperty

>command but no joy ;-(

>

>Thanks to Greg Caines for help so far - I think I'm almost there!

>

>Ben Houghton

>Production Manager

>www.akoluthic.net

>

>

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