[RESOLVED] [Help] localToGlobal Issue

[Battlespace]

Hello,

Using Flash 9 with AS3...

This is a quick example of an issue I'm experiencing in a current project. I've used localToGlobal before but never in this situation with MCs within MCs within MCs....

There is a map mc then within the map there are three section mcs. Within each section there is a single unit MC. When you click on the unit mc a property movieclip will open at the mousex and mousey. This is correct... the problem is I want the same thing to happen when you select the unit from the datagrid. The starting coordinates to display the property mc would be the mc.x and mc.y of that unit. I just can't get the localToGlobal portion of the code working.

Below is an image of what the example looks like. The top is when I click on unit 1. The property MC is shown correctly. The second image shows when I selected unit 1 from the datagrid... the window is not anywhere near unit 1 mc.

Any help is appreciated...
Brent



click here to view source FLA

[Battlespace]

Forgot to add that the source FLA is attached in the link below the image...

Thanks again for any help,
Brent

[Battlespace]

still no luck here...

Do I need to do multiple localToGlobal between all of the MCs?

Thanks,
Brent

[DallasNYC]

You need to define the local object in your 'localToGlodal' statement...

myGlobalPoint = myLocalObject.localToGlobal(point);

var clickPoint:Point = new Point(evt.target.data.mc.x, evt.target.data.y);
var globalPoint:Point = evt.target.data.mc.localToGlobal(clickPoint);
prop_mc.x = globalPoint.x;
prop_mc.y = globalPoint.y;

[Battlespace]

Thanks for your help...

With just a little modification that worked great for me...

I fixed the typo here:

evt.target.data.y 
to 
evt.target.data.mc.y

after this it was really close but not right on the x, y of the mc (upper left corner).

Once I changed this line:

var globalPoint:Point = evt.target.data.mc.localToGlobal(clickPoint);

to

var globalPoint:Point = evt.target.data.mc.parent.localToGlobal(clickPoint);

It started working great...

Thanks again...
Brent