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

[Ben Houghton]

Thanks Helen and Gabriel,


That worked!  I was forgetting the quotation's wasn't I?  The whole world

seams a clearer place!


l8er


ben


>Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 07:45:18 -0400

>

From: Helen Triolo <designeri-technica [dot] com>

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

>

>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


>>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



Ben Houghton

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