FLASH: Re: GetProperty

[fat karate]

> I'm not sure whether this will work ...

> But i think you have to set a variable (i.e. widthvar)

> Then do a tell target (and specify your mc as the target) and finally do

> the get property like this (/:widthvar,_width)

> I'm not really sure right now but try it and tell me if it wont work...


Weeell...


I don't quite get this, but I don't think it'd work. What is widthvar

supposed to be? In the syntax you suggest, it seems to imply that widthvar

represents the target path, in which case I'm not sure I see where it makes

a difference. Or are you saying:


Main timeline: variable name widthvar

Movie clip:setvariable ("/:widthvar",_width)


That kind of makes sense.

But it doesn't work

Here's the script I tried:

Begin Tell Target ("/body")

      Set Variable: "/:widthvar" = _width

      Set Variable: "/:posvar" = _x

End Tell Target

Trace (widthvar)


This is on the main timeline. Occasionally, I  get a response 'Target not

found', although the target is correct, and indeed was selected from the

target options.


Weird.


> 

> 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

> 


Well, I haven't really got far enough to test this, but surely it would

depend in any case on whether I'm using the centre or the top left. That's

what the bleedin' help files said, anyway.


Phil



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