Current position variable?

Question

If I have several items that move across the screen but the user can click any of them at any time, how do I record the current position of any of the items item in order to use that data to change the position of the item after the user clicks?
This is what I am doing: I have 11 images that slide accross the screen. The user can click any of them at any time. When he clicks one I am scaling the image so it looks like it is comming forward (z axis) and then the rest of the images are scaled down so it looks like they are going back on z axis. So what I am trying to do is get the current position of the image when the user clicks the image so that I can use that to correctly estimate the scaling and moving of the image to make it look like it scales from the center and not from the top left corner.
So if have a variable that gets the current position of the image being clicked I'm thinking I can change its position using something like: x = currentposition + -45;
Thanks for any input!

Answer 1

thanks : )
I see what you mean, I do need to add more data so you see what I'm working with!
I have 11 images loaded and put through an array and then assigned to buttons: b1, b2, b3 etc which are sprites.I then placed them across the stage evenly (they are not all on the stage at the same time. They slide on from the right and go off to the left till the 6th btn is in the middle of the screen. there are about 3 images on the screen at one time). Each one of the images is a btn which will lead to its respective part of the flash project. Each of the buttons are in one movieclip called imageLoaderHost.
I have backbtn and nextbtn which moves the images right or left. I think that should give you a good amount of data as a base to understand what I am doing with the following code now:
          public function setBtns():void {
               btnNext.dir = -1;
               //btnNext.limit=stage.stageWidth-imageLoaderHost.width;
               btnNext.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, shiftF);
               btnBack.dir = 1;
               btnBack.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, shiftF);
          function shiftF(e:MouseEvent):void {
               //trace(shiftamount);
               var mc:MovieClip = MovieClip(e.currentTarget);
               var destX:Number = imageLoaderHost.x+ mc.dir * shiftamount;
               trace (destX<stage.stageWidth-imageLoaderHost.width, destX<0);
               //TweenLite.to(imageLoaderHost, 4, {x: destX, ease:Quad.easeOut});
               if (destX>0) {
                    //trace ("if executing");
                    TweenMax.to(imageLoaderHost, 1.3, {x: 25, ease:Quad.easeOut});
               }else if(destX<stage.stageWidth-imageLoaderHost.width) {
                    //trace ("else if executing");
                    TweenMax.to(imageLoaderHost, 1.3, {x: stage.stageWidth-imageLoaderHost.width, ease:Quad.easeOut});
               }else{
                    trace ("last else executing");
                    TweenMax.to(imageLoaderHost, 2, {x: destX, ease:Quad.easeOut});
          public function onButtonClick(e:Event):void {
               var namesArray:Array = ["b1","b2","b3","b4","b5","b6","b7","b8","b9","b10","b11"];
               var buttonWanted:String = namesArray[Number(e.currentTarget.name)];
               switch (buttonWanted) {
                    case "b1" :
                         break;
                    case "b2" :
                         break;
                    case //ETC ALL THE WAY TO B11
So, that all works fine and dandy! So now I am trying to make it so I can pull the x of any of the buttons at any time (or at least 1 of the the 3 that are one the stage at that time) and assign it as a sort of x value so that I can use that to scale it so it looks correct. I will have to scale it and move it at the same time so it looks like it is being scaled from the center because I have the reg point set to the default left top corner and that is what all of my current code is written around.
Hopefully that was not toooooo long winded and my words are somewhat understandable!