attachMovie now I cant access the mc's X or Y position

[complexity]

Hey all,

Ive had this problem in the past aswell

this.attachMovie("images_civil", "images_civil_mc", 1);
images_civil_mc.x = -25.7;
images_civil_mc.y = -114.1;
}

the problem is X or Y never changes position on screen even if I take that line out. What do I do to access the X and Y position? Ive tried _root.mc, this.mc but I dont seem to be able to change it. Must be something simple I am doing wrong.

Any help would be great

[Newsgroup_User]

complexity wrote:

> the problem isY never changes position on screen even if I take that line
> out.
> What do I do to access the Y position?
>
> Any help would be great

You must use _x and _y (notice the underscores).

Tim.

[complexity]

answered my own question:

this.attachMovie("images_civil", "images_civil_mc", 0, {_x:-25.7,_y:-114.1});

Seems to have fixed it.

[kglad]

it's _x and _y.

[complexity]

of course! Still having some trouble getting the bugs out of that file I showed you.

Ive set up another if statement which I want to act as a trigger. Its sitting on frame 20 (only) of a 40 frame animation.

I thought that the if statement would only execute when that frame is only played, but it seems to execute as soon as frame 1 plays. How do I stop it from executing like that.?

[kglad]

code in a frame won't execute until the frame plays. so, if it executes you can be sure the frame has played.