Hello,

I have a movie movieclip. There is a nested movie clip inside of that (which
isn't moving in the clip that it's nested in). I want to know the position
(X,Y) of the nested clip. If I tell it to find the position of it with the
script I have, it tells me the X,Y position that it resides in within the
movieclip that its nested in.

Help??

(Did that make any sense?)

Hi,

use localToGlobal to find the global position of the nested instance. but you
must pass the point with an object reference to make the convertion.


//from the parent timeline
var mcPoint:Object = {x:my_mc._x, y:my_mc._y};
this.localToGlobal(mcPoint);

//now the Object mcPoint x,y properties have been converted
//find the global point by the new object reference:
trace(mcPoint.x+":"+mcPoint.y);

YAY!! Thanks clbeech, It works!

Hey great Don!! you're welcome.