# Macromedia Flash 8 Registry Point does not corrispond to ActionScripts Registry Point

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**Created:** [May 10, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/macromedia-flash-8-registry-point-does-not-corrispond-to-actionscripts-registry-point/288070 "2009-05-10T18:54:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Olaf\_Forkbeard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/c89c15/32.png) [@Olaf\_Forkbeard](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Olaf_Forkbeard)\
**Post date:** [May 10, 2009, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/macromedia-flash-8-registry-point-does-not-corrispond-to-actionscripts-registry-point/288070/1 "2009-05-10T18:54:48Z")

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Macromedia Flash 8 Registry Point does not corrispond to ActionScripts Registry Point. I am basically having the same problem as this guy:

[http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=95488](http://www.actionscript.org/forums/showthread.php3?t=95488)

But when I looked through his thread He did not get the answer he was looking for.

My situation though is that I am writing a tutorial on how to make a simple game for a flash player class at school. In the tutorial I say to put a movie clip’s contents which are 80x80 in size at -40, -40 to center it. Well when I get to school (which has CS3) putting the content Movie Clip at -40, -40 does not center it. It moves it offset from the registry by -40,-40. Is there a button to access this?

And to show that it is not just the difference in versions. My friend has The exact same version of flash as I do, and his registration point runs like the schools CS3 where if you move something with a centered registration point, it moves directly to where the registration point is at, not the top left.

Here is an example of what my flash does when I center it.  
[lawstudios.bravehost.com/nrd/example\_1.fla](http://www.kirupa.com/forum/lawstudios.bravehost.com/nrd/example_1.fla) \< 30kb  
And when that re-created on my school’s computer or my friends computer then the content will be down and left -40,-40 more then it is in my example.

I hope someone has a solution to this…

Thanks!  
-Olaf Forkbeard