_x / _y co-ordinates

[mave_the_rave]

Hi...
I'm using attachMovie method to place movies
on the stage. But because I can't see them until I
test my movie, I am placing a box where I want my
movie clip to appear, and taking the x/y co-ordinates
from the property inspector.

However, using these co-ords. in the attachMovie params.
_x and _y , They don't line up, and I have to poke and
hope until I get it right.

I have now found the co-ords for the movie I am working
on at this time. But even using these, sometimes a clip
appears on the stage very large and not starting at
those co-ords.

I'm making the clips by cutting and pasting frames
into a new movie symbol. but not sure at what stage I
should be sizing them. ?

Any comments/advice would be greatly appreaciated.

[badbadzmaru]

1.) the registration point of your linked mcs should be always left/top

2.) are you attaching the Mcs to the root or another Mc?
the registration point of every mc is the pivot (_x=0, _y=0)
so if you attatch a movie into a clip with _x=20 _y=40 and want the attached Mc to be _x=60 and _y=0 of the _root the coords of the attached is like this:

_root.containerMC.attachMovie("theMovie", "Movieattached", level);
_root.containerMC.Movieattached._x=40 (60<-the desired pos - 20<- the offset from the containerClip)

_root.containerMC.Movieattached._y=-20;

after that, you can scale your MC:
mc._width=desredWidth etc..

hope this helöps

[mave_the_rave]

hi badbadzmaru
Thankyou for your detailed reply:-

I'm quite new to flash and get confused with cetain
terms.

I get confused between Movie & Movie clip.

so when you say:-
'so if you attatch a movie into a clip'

I tend to think in terms of attaching a clip into a
movie.

Basically, I am working on the main time line
and have movie clip symbols in my library.

I am using the attachmovie method to place movie
clips sybols from the library on the main stage.

I can't recall my exact code but
I wasn't using _root.containerMC.attachMovie
possibly _root.attachMovie

Ill take a further look a little later when I get home
from work.
[Edited by mave_the_rave on 08-12-2002 at 11:03 AM]