# I'm just lost with globalToLocal

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/im-just-lost-with-globaltolocal/201221>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 19, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/im-just-lost-with-globaltolocal/201221 "2006-09-19T15:46:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![stevs102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@stevs102](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/stevs102)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/im-just-lost-with-globaltolocal/201221/1 "2006-09-19T15:46:02Z")

</div>

I know there are tons of threads but nothing has helped. I’ve attached an FLA I’m using to try and figure this out.

Basically I’m trying to write a function that can look at any movieClip no matter how far down it is nested and then tell a MC sitting in the root movie to lay over it.