# Coordinates of mc on stage

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/coordinates-of-mc-on-stage/156061>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 22, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/coordinates-of-mc-on-stage/156061 "2005-07-22T04:45:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![marty177](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@marty177](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/marty177)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/coordinates-of-mc-on-stage/156061/1 "2005-07-22T04:45:11Z")

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I can’t believe I can’t figure this out! What I need is really simple, but I am obviously doing it wrong.

I have a whole stack of tile instances arranged in a grid on the stage. Each mc has a button in it. All I want is when the user clicks the ‘mc’, to return the coordinates of that mc relative to the main stage. I’ve tried \_root, \_parent … everything.

Does each tile have to be named? Of course I have been able to find the coordinate if I name them all but I’m dealing with about 600 of them. Also, they are arranged in a weird way that I can’t use AS to generate it at runtime. Check out the attachment and you will see what I mean.

Thanks a million for any help.

Marty