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Subject: Re: FLASH: setting a variable from the location of an instance
From: Ben Houghton
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 16:27:00 +0100

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 <designerati-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
Freelance Multimedia Ebusiness Developer

Production Manager
www.akoluthic.net
Programmer
www.visuality.co.uk

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