Re: FLASH: Interesting... direct access to properties as variables

[John Croteau]

Hi Branden,


> but I just ran across this

> little interesting bit of information today as I was working on a

> drag-and-drop excersise for a client.  When you are inside a movie clip you

> can directly refer to that movie clips properties as you would other

> variables local to that movie clip.

> I.E. to find if the MCs x location and set it to a variable named xloc

> Set Variable "xloc" = _x

> works just fine.  Just thought I would share in case it helps anyone out, I

> know it makes my code a good deal easier to read!

This is a good tip for experianced programmers, who also are well versed

in movie clips.


> I don't know if this has been discussed before,

No it has not, but code using this technique has been posted to the

List.


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