Finding x and y values for a movie clip

[spewperb]

Hi, sorry for the simple question but its been puzzling me for a while now. I basically have a movie clip on the stage called box. All I want to do it run a function that works out the boxes x and y and adds 2 to the values. I haven't really got my head around DisplayObject yet.

[sixBlade]

Make sure the movieclip has an instance name (for example myBox) in the properties box

then in actionscript you can do this to do what you want:

myBox._x +=2;
myBox._y +=2;

[spewperb]

THat doesn't work in AS3. Sorry I should of specified what version I am using.

[sixBlade]

No sorry my bad, I assumed it would work but just tried it myself and its not quite so easy :)

[MikeTheVike]

In AS3, don't use the underscore before x and y in the example sixBlade gives

[sixBlade]

Yeah don't use the underscore but you also need to add other basic stuff like

package {

import flash.display.MovieClip;

function moveMyBox() {
myBox.x += 2;
myBox.y += 2;
}
}