Absolute Position

[OneSexyPaperBag]

Someone mentioned to me once that there was a command for finding the _x and _y of an object inside another Movie Clip in relation to _root.

Up until now I've just been using

actual_x = _parent._x+_x

to find absolute position. This gets really annoying after a few levels of MCs though. If someone knows the command I'm talking about I'd be grateful.

[GuyWithHisComp]

I think you're looking for localToGlobal()

[T-H]

At 8/4/07 05:09 PM, OneSexyPaperBag wrote: This gets really annoying after a few levels of MCs though. If someone knows the command I'm talking about I'd be grateful.

To be honest I find globalToLocal / localToGlobal even more annoying to work with, they can be very buggy and unresponsive

[Paranoia]

At 8/4/07 05:54 PM, T-H wrote: To be honest I find globalToLocal / localToGlobal even more annoying to work with, they can be very buggy and unresponsive

Yeah, if you really find using levels of MCs annoying then I just reccomend writing your own function. Like:

function getFullPos(levs:Number):Array{
var cos:Array = [this._x, this._y];
levs > 1 ? (cos[0] += this._parent._x, cos[1] += this._parent._y]) : 0;
levs > 2 ? (cos[0] += this._parent._parent._x, cos[1] += this._parent._parent._y]) : 0;
levs > 3 ? (cos[0] += this._parent._parent._parent._x, cos[1] += this._parent._parent._parent._y]) : 0;
levs > 4 ? (cos[0] += this._parent._parent._parent._parent._x, cos[1] += this._parent._parent._parent._parent._y]
) : 0;
// if you really need any more than this you've got some serious nesting...
return [cos[0], cos[1]];}
;

Optimise away!

[Toast]

I do believe this will find the amount of MCs.

u = 0;
while (!found) {
u++;
(mc=_parent.mc) == '_level0' ? found=true : 0;
}

[Toast]

Anyway, unless Paranoia's function becomes really sophisticated: I recommend logcalToGlobal(); How to use:

var obj:Object = new Object();
obj.x = YourMovieClip._x;
obj.y = YourMovieClip._y;
localToGlobal(obj);

Then obj.x will give you the global position of local point yourmovieclip._x and obj.y will give you the global position of local point yourmovieclip._y;