This is just a general question really. Why is it that, within a movie, the stated co-ordinates of an object (_x and _y) seem to become completely arbitrary? I've got a scrolling area of text which uses several movie clips, some of which are nested. I could do with being able to say whether one of the objects inside a nested movie, is above or below an object that isn't inside that movie, unfortunately the _y co-ordinate of one is about 120, while the _y co-ordinate of the other is something like -350. These objects are on the exact same point (visually) on the canvas! What the heck is going on? I can work around it if I have to so it's not desperately urgent, but I would like to know what is happening and what I can do about it.
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_y within movie clip craziness.
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This is because _x and _y coordinates are defined by where the point is inside its parent clip. So a point on the main stage will always be consistent but a point in a clip droppd on the stage will be defined relative to the registration point of the clip not the main stage. If you have nested clips the problem is compounded... Slainte
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