Passing Variable to another Movieclip

[JonnyDL]

I have a movie clip that is tracking the horizontal location of the mouse. Id like to pass the location from the movieclip (track_mc)  to a text box on the parent movieclip. Any simple way to do that or am I going to need to dig and really learn about classes ;] ?

[Guest · Accepted solution]

There are other ways to do it, but you should be able to something like so within your track_mc clip:

parent.textBox.text = String(mouseX);

[JonnyDL]

Thanks! that worked

(I did need to use MovieClip(parent) instead of just parent for as3 if anyone else views this)

[Guest]

Well, you don't actually have to cast parent to MovieClip - but you'd have to turn off strict mode, and that's not a good idea. You need to cast to MC, because the compiler only knows .parent as a DisplayObjectContainer

[JonnyDL]

You answered that so quickly it gave me an opportunity to experiment. I was trying to take it a step further now and trying to use similar logic to pass it just as a variable, (Learning more ticks) not into a text box, but a trace (in the parent MC). Not having any luck still experimenting. any suggestions?

[JonnyDL]

Looking into it on some other web sites. I'm probably going to need global variables (hoping I could sneak around it. looks like I'm learning about classes ;]

Thanks again for the previous help