How to get x and y coordinates in the info pane through PS API

Question

Hi all,
I'd like to get the x,y coordinates of cursor pointer while mouse moving, just like the info pane do.
Can anyone tell me how to achieve this?

Answer 1

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);
}