localToGlobal responsive

[pastorpixel]

I have a problem with localToGlobal, by using the responsive publish Settings.

In the stage there is a  Movieclip named "car" in this Movieclip ist a nested Movieclip named "wheel"

I want to get the Position of wheel from the view of the stage, so my code is in the first frame of the stage

var p = this.car.wheel.localToGlobal(0,0);

This works fine if you dont publish with responsive size, and the canvas is in the upper left corner of the browser window.

Can you help me?

[RandomlyFish · Accepted solution]

The problem is that the values you get from localToGlobal are affected by the scaling of the stage, where as the position of objects are not. Here's a function that I wrote, which you can use instead of calling localToGlobal on a symbol.

// The function
function LocalToGlobal (_symbol) {
     var point = _symbol.localToGlobal(0, 0);
     // Makes the x and y values not affected by the responsive scaling
     point.x /= stage.scaleX;
     point.y /= stage.scaleY;
     return point;
}
// Example
var globalPosition = LocalToGlobal(this.mcParent.mcChild);
this.mc.x = globalPosition.x;
this.mc.y = globalPosition.y;

[pastorpixel]

Thank you very much 🙂