AS2 - Get the position of a movie clip, on a particular frame of a MC

[ExpertAnimators]

I am trying to get the position of a movie clip called "Shooter", returned to a variable called spitballYpos.

The movie clip is sitting on frame 6 (labelled "Shooting") of a movie clip called PDFstanding.

The position returns perfectly if I place the .shooter MC on the first frame of PDFstanding, but on frame 6 the variable result just returns "undefined".

What have I missed? If I need to reference the particular frame the 'shooter' movie clip is on, then what is the correct syntax?

Here's my code...

spitballYpos = _root.PDFstanding.shooter._y;

[gparis]

you cannot talk to or hear a movieclip that is not there. that's for the logical explanation.

If your clip is on frame #6 of the PDFstanding instance, that's where the tracking code should also be. OR, better since it allows you to centralize your code on the main timeline, have that clip on frame 1 of PDFstanding, where it works, and set it's _alpha to 0. Set its alpha back to 100 on frame #6.

gparis