Passing coordinates relative to stage...

Hi

I am so very stuck, and need your help with relative coordinates please.

I am building a project where I have 15 'islands' inside one big 'ocean' movie clip.

I created navigation buttons so you can explore the Ocean movie clip and look around the islands.

my problem comes when i want to 'zoom into an island'

So basically on the stage i have a movie clip called- Ocean_mc, and inside it are 15 movie clips, one of them (for this example) is a movie clip called GreenIsland_mc.

Passing coordinates relative to stage...

Ok, I managed to solve it myself?

Basically I think I manually created the .localToGlobal thing (but i might be wrong on that).

1) I simply defined the ocean_mc original coordinates-

It wasn't a straight forward 0,0 because my movie was not properly centred, so I simply did a trace statement to find where the ocean_mc thinks it is.

2) Then I defined the original coordinates of a central zoom point for the island-

This was done by a non-sophisticated trial and error where I clicked to zoom in the island to set coordinates, and simply changed them little by little till i found the right place on stage, I am sure there is a beautiful smooth way to calculate those coordinates but I found the dirty trial and error way very quick

3) When an Island was clicked to be zoomed, I checked the placement of the ocean_mc clip in relation to it's original place and added that difference to the island's original centre points.

That's it.

In code terms-

1)

// So I started by setting original coordinates for the ocean_mc movie clip-

var origOceaonX:Number = -200;

var origOceaonY:Number = -310;

2)

// Then setting the original coordinates for the zoomed in island

// (this is basically the coordinated that will place the island movie clip centre stage if it is clicked before anything is moved )-

var origIslandX:Number = 180;

var origIslandY:Number = 270;

// and then I defined 4 new vars-

// two to hold a new adjustments for the centre point for the islands-

var centrePointAdjstX:Number;

var centrePointAdjstY:Number;

// and two for setting the new centre point for the islands-

var newCentrePointX:Number;

var newCentrePointY:Number;

3)

// and then when ever the zoom in button was clicked I looked where the ocean_mc movie clip was in relation to it's starting point and simply adjusted // the island's centre coordinates accordingly