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the textfield is in a movieclip?<br />
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do you have a document class?<br />
if so you can do the following <br />
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(DocumentClassName)root.mo<wbr />vieclipnam<wbr />e.x;<br />
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the textfield is in a movieclip?

do you have a document class?
if so you can do the following

(DocumentClassName)root.movieclipname.x;




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My document class name is CoreModule.as.<br />
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I tried the following but no good:<br />
CoreModule.root.movieclipn<wbr />ame.x;<br />
and<br />
(CoreModule).root.moviecli<wbr />pname.x;
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My document class name is CoreModule.as.

I tried the following but no good:
CoreModule.root.movieclipname.x;
and
(CoreModule).root.movieclipname.x;

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can you upload your files. will be easier to debug and check it that way.
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can you upload your files. will be easier to debug and check it that way.

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This is incomplete because the project is now on hold.
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This is incomplete because the project is now on hold.

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I have been able to dynamically add a textfield to the stage and can drag / drop. I have a button on the stage that when clicked, should center the MovieClip / Sprite horizontally. The problem is that the following code targets the button clicked (which makes sense):<br />
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private function centerHorizontally(e:Mouse<wbr />Event):voi<wbr />d {<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; var thisSprite:Sprite = e.target.parent;<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; trace(thisSprite.x);<br />
}
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I have been able to dynamically add a textfield to the stage and can drag / drop. I have a button on the stage that when clicked, should center the MovieClip / Sprite horizontally. The problem is that the following code targets the button clicked (which makes sense):

private function centerHorizontally(e:MouseEvent):void {
    var thisSprite:Sprite = e.target.parent;
    trace(thisSprite.x);
}

AS3 Target an active Movieclip / Sprite

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