Can someone give me some clues on how to get the x and y location of a movie
symbol that can be
moved by user around the screen? I am aware of using _xmouse and _ymouse
properties to get the mouse
coordinates but how can i get the x and y coordinates of a movable movie
symbol? I assume i want the coordiates of its registration center coordinates.
Any code hints or tips would be appreciated. I am lost on this one.
thanks

_x & _y

what are you trying yo say?

what are you trying to say?

If you are using Actionscript 3 you should

1) Use event listeners to detect mouse-down and mouse-up events on the
movieclip.
2) Set up functions to drag and drop the movieclip.
3) In the drop function get the x and y position of the movieclip and
4) trace it out or put the values into dynamic textfields.

Here's a simple example. The code is on the first frame of the timeline

myMC.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, startDragSquare);
myMC.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, stopDragSquare);

function startDragSquare(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
this.startDrag();
}

function stopDragSquare(evt:MouseEvent):void
{
this.stopDrag();
var xpos = this.x;
var ypos = this.y;

trace ("X: "+xpos+", Y: "+ypos);
}

thank you Noelbaland
I will end up putting values in dynamic fields. I will have to study what you gave me and dynamic text fields to figure that out to.