FLASH: setting a variable from the location of an instance

[Ben Houghton]

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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