quick and silly question

[gospastic]

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!

[LeadMagnet]

An easy way is to define the variable on the root:
_root.foo = this.mouseY; // or _root.mouseY (getting the mouse coordinates is different depending on what's calling it)

Then just call the variable from anywhere by calling it from the root.

[gospastic]

I see what you are saying - thanks for the pointer!