# Flash MX stage coordinates #$\*^!@#$\_%!) **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [March 24, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413 "2003-03-24T21:21:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![shuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@shuga](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/shuga)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/1 "2003-03-24T21:21:27Z")
how does Flash MX figure it’s coordinates i have a jpg that is loaded several symbols deep off of the main timeline and i have specified an \_x and \_y for it but aside from trial and error i have no way to figure out exact coordinates to position the movie. what corner of the loaded jpg is used for positioning and where is 0,0 so i can figure out exactly where to tell \_x and \_y to be? :hangover: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/2 "2003-03-24T21:26:06Z")
the upper left corner is positioned at 0,0 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/3 "2003-03-24T21:36:46Z")
right on the root … the upper left corner is 0,0 but once you’re in a symbol … how does that change relative to the symbol or root or whatever?😏 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 9:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/4 "2003-03-24T21:43:02Z")
inside a symbol is exactly the same… ? i think i’m not gettin’ your question :-\ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/5 "2003-03-24T21:46:27Z")
ok i’ll try to explain better sorry for the confusion if i have a movie that i load onto \_root and i tell it to be at 0,0 it will have it’s top left corner aligned at the top left corner of the main stage if i load a movie into a movieclip that is on the \_root and i tell it to be at 0,0 it will not be aligned at the top left corner of the main stage. i’m curious what corner of the loaded movie gets aligned with what corner as 0,0 of the movieclip it’s being loaded into ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/6 "2003-03-24T21:51:18Z")
oh!! i think i got it now… take the registration point as 0,0 reference 😉 it will only change if you move the registration point with the free transform tool =) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/7 "2003-03-24T22:12:31Z")
**note.** my post could be interpreted as if moving the registration point will change the 0,0 coordinates :crazy: my mistake… 0,0 will remain in the same place =) i think there’s a little crosshair… i’d need to check that out :sigh: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/8 "2003-03-24T22:12:49Z")
but a loaded movie has no registration point for me to grab ☹ i just want to know how to figure out where to tell my movie to load it’s not relative to the \_root’s stage coordinates try it … load a movie into a symbol … at 0,0 … it won’t appear at the top left ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/9 "2003-03-24T22:14:13Z")
it will appear at 0,0 of the movie clip it’s loaded into… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 10:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/10 "2003-03-24T22:32:26Z")
you’re running into the problem of INTERNAL coordinates… if I’m following this right… if you have a movie clip called “spank” in the stage… and you load another movie clip, “monkey” into it… and then you try to set the coordinates of “monkey” it will change the coordinates based in relation to “spank.” Meaning that if you have "spank at (30, 30), and you load “monkey” into “spank” and set monkey.\_x and monkey.\_y to 0, "monkey will be at (30, 30). If you want it to be at (0,0) relative to the root, you have to do: monkey.\_x = -spank.\_x and monkey.\_y = -spank.\_y did this explain anything? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/11 "2003-03-24T22:36:21Z")
thanks **lavaboy** =) i really suck at this. sometimes i just can’t explain stuff :-\ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 10:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/12 "2003-03-24T22:37:03Z")
i think so so what part of monkey would be at 30,30? which corner? or would it be aligned to the center of the loaded movie? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/13 "2003-03-24T22:38:12Z")
it will always be the upper left corner **shuga** 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2003, 11:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/14 "2003-03-24T23:58:36Z")
> \*Originally posted by kax \* > \*\*thanks **lavaboy** =) > i really suck at this. sometimes i just can’t explain stuff :-\ \*\* you can say that again!! Maybe its just because you just dont know anything? :!: 😉 Im just playin, we are lucky to have you here kax… _someone_ needs to take up the slack when Im not here :beam: of course a “spank the monkey” perspective always seems to explain things so nicely every time. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/15 "2003-03-25T00:05:52Z")
haha… yes… I really wanted to make a little gem of literary artwork, in which I would create a metaphor in which the language I used to explain it would have a double meaning… … but then I said f\*ck it, and just referred to the containers as spank and monkey. I hope I used terms we could all relate to… haha… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2003, 2:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-mx-stage-coordinates--/16413/16 "2003-03-25T02:48:12Z")
> _Originally posted by senocular_ > **you can say that again!! Maybe its just because you just dont know anything? :!:** how can you know that i know?.. and how can i know that you know?.. :sigh: > _Originally posted by senocular_ > **Im just playin, we are lucky to have you here kax… _someone_ needs to take up the slack when Im not here :beam:** my pleasure 😉 > _Originally posted by senocular_ > **of course a “spank the monkey” perspective always seems to explain things so nicely every time.** monkey? what monkey? what are you talking about!? :stunned: 😛