# Assign values question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assign-values-question/138103>\
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**Created:** [February 20, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assign-values-question/138103 "2005-02-20T00:06:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 20, 2005, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/assign-values-question/138103/1 "2005-02-20T00:06:29Z")

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I created a auto scroller which works fine but I would like to change it so that I can reuse it without changing different values each time.  
The movie consist of a scrollmc and a maskmc (just a rectangle)  
So if I write,  
right = 150;  
150 being the \_x position of maskmc  
why wouldn’t it work if I change it to  
right = maskmc.\_x;  
:puzzled: