Re: FLASH: Getproperty

[Karin Christensen]

First of all you would want to divide the width by 2 since the right

hand edge would be the x position plus *half* of the width.

Karin


> All right, here's the thing.

>

> I'm trying to find the right hand edge of a movie clip called

"body". I used

> getproperty("/body",_x) +getproperty("/body",_width) and  it

returned 0

> (incorrectly)

>

> I then checked the help, and it suggested using the syntax /body: _x

> (actually, it said /Foo: _x, about which more later). Tried that,

and got a

> syntax error message. Just out of interest, I even pasted the text

/Foo: _x

> into the actionscript, and got the same syntax error.

>

> So what's with the help? Is it completely wrong?

>

> Phil




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