# .x,.y and .X,.Y of a Movieclip

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/x-y-and-x-y-of-a-movieclip/318756
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 29, 2011, 10:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/x-y-and-x-y-of-a-movieclip/318756 "2011-01-29T10:12:40Z")
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### Author: ![pnsrinivasreddy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f14d63/32.png) [@pnsrinivasreddy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pnsrinivasreddy)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2011, 10:12am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/x-y-and-x-y-of-a-movieclip/318756/1 "2011-01-29T10:12:40Z")

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Hi,

anybody knows the difference between .x,.y and .X,.Y of a movieclip?

What I mean, I want to know what happens when something like

my\_mc.x = my\_mc.X;

what does it mean?

Thanks,  
Srinivas