# Quick and silly question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-and-silly-question/254002>\
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**Created:** [March 7, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-and-silly-question/254002 "2008-03-07T05:49:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![plashbydo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@plashbydo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/plashbydo)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 5:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-and-silly-question/254002/1 "2008-03-07T05:49:45Z")

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Hello everyone -

I have an event listener (mouseDown) on a movieclip which captures the y co-ordinates of the mouse and passes to a variable.

I need to pass over the variable to the actionscript within the same movieclip for it to act on.

I have tried .this \_root \_parent etc - how do I do this?

Thanks for any suggestions!