# Quick help please as3 spacing

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**Created:** [August 7, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-help-please-as3-spacing/267983 "2008-08-07T20:28:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 7, 2008, 8:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quick-help-please-as3-spacing/267983/1 "2008-08-07T20:28:22Z")

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so i’ve got a simple dynamic layout “on resize”… awith let’s say like three major elements, they’re in the flash ide, but addchilded using flash. the main element, lets call that triangle, is a movieclip, with a movie clip inside it that i reference by giving the instance name “space”.

so triangle resizes dynamically right, but I want to position something based on triangle.space.x and triangle.space.y … because the space movieclip is int he triangle movieclip, so when the browser is resized and triangle is resized, space’s position changes as well… follow me… but when I trace out the x, and y positon of space, no matter how ive resized the window, it always has the same position. i figure this is because it isn’t being moved around, triangle is…

so my question is how can I have an element be positioned based on a movieclip inside of another movieclip… the problem arises because triangles has a blend mode on it, and I don’t want this new object to have that blendmode but want it to fit in the right position based on an element inside of triangle… hope you understand, i’m a newb… thanks.