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

[Helen Triolo]

Sounds like 


  Set Variable "loc_y" = GetProperty ("/movie",_y)  

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


would work, if your mouse-follower's instance name is movie (or use

"/mouse_pos" if the instance name is mouse_pos -- I couldn't tell for

sure from what you wrote), and both movieclips are sitting on the main

timeline.  You just need to get the path right, using "/" to reference

the main timeline, followed by the instance name (not the symbol name). 

It's also helpful to create viewable textfields of things like loc_y to

see if variables are being set as you expect (but maybe you already did

that to get your mouse follower working).


Regards,

Helen

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Ben Houghton wrote:

> 

> 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

>


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