Re: FLASH: getting x position of nested MC

[Laura Mollett]

> I can get the nested MC's x position on keypress

> to appear in a text field but it won't update on

> subsequent keypresses unlike the MC on the main timeline.

> My game depends on updated x positions for all MC's

> so that I can calculate a series of collision detections.


Just a guess, but is your main movie line moving forward by one and your mc

static? You may need to move the clip forward before it will update (leave

the frame in which you're asking it to update). Since it's receiving the

information properly, that could be the trouble :)


hth,

Laura


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