# Getting a draging movieclip's previous location

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-draging-movieclips-previous-location/230506>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 26, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-draging-movieclips-previous-location/230506 "2007-06-26T19:32:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![pkarpenko](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/pkarpenko/32/3051_2.png) [@pkarpenko](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pkarpenko)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2007, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/getting-a-draging-movieclips-previous-location/230506/1 "2007-06-26T19:32:55Z")

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I’m wondering if there’s an easy way to get the PREVIOUS x and y of a movieclip that’s being dragged by the user. That is to say, the x and y the mc had before flash moved it with the mouse handler.