Moving multiple movieclips at once

[madthijs]

My first post here


i built this application in flash with which you can built a spaceship from pre-fab movieclips. You can drag and drop these parts onto your ´drawing board´.

When you are finished and save this ship, all the data (the names from the parts and the x and y values) are saved to a Database.

This all works fine, but the problem is when i retrieve the values.
I can retrieve the data from my database into my flash movie and i can rebuilt the ship how it was made by someone.

I now want all these movieclips to ´become 1´ so that i can move this ship at random through my flash movie.

I hope that you understand what i mean and give me some hints ?

Thank a lot,

Madthijs

[hangalot]

i think loading all the clips into one movie and then getting the relative _x _y coordinates via globalToLocal would make the most sense.

there is no way in which u can change a MC's parent so once assembled on the _root u would have 2 adjust all the _x _y coordinates, which would have way more overhead if this is a game.

[madthijs]

hangalot, thanks for your reply.

I want to make an aplication with which you can built something from multiple pre-fab movieclips.
After it is built i want to make an interactive gallery where all works are moving through the screen.

i can set up the works in the right x and y positions, but i cant move them as a whole , because it exists of multiple movieclips.

I thought there might be a way to assign all the movieclips that are in the right x and y positions to a group or something. And then let this group do some random scripted movement.

[hangalot]

no there is no way 2 assign them to a specific "group". as i said u cannot change the parent.

the best route 2 follow is 2 create an emptyMovieClip and then load the clips into that, and position them via the methods globalToLocal.

search the archives and check the help, all these methods are well documented.

[madthijs]

I thought i was unclear of pointing out what i wanted....but you got the point

Thanks for your help! and i will go and search for that option.