Comments on: localToGlobal() in AS3 not working

By: LocalToGlobal & GlobalToLocal demystified « KAPSID – NUI

LocalToGlobal & GlobalToLocal demystified « KAPSID – NUI — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 06:20:26 +0000

[...] it’s been pretty quiet about this blog for some time, for my new work place keeps me fairly busy. Not that this would be a bad thing. After wrapping my mind about concepts of code abstraction, collecting battle scars ( Hi Snepo ) , I now learn a great deal about everyday Flash and AS3.0 techniques, which I was happy to ignore for most of the time. One of those very straight forward things (LocalToGlobal and GlobalToLocal) really caused me headaches once and since I have never touched it again. This blog post has proven very helpful to me and obviously to many others. Here’s the link: http://www.orlandmedia.com/blog/actionscript-3/localtoglobal-in-as3-not-working/ [...]

By: Mortimer

Mortimer — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 13:44:28 +0000

Common problem – simple solution, thankyoutnankyou!!
I do ask my self, though, why do I always have to trial-and-error such things for hours til Iget real frustrated while Adobe maintains online docs where info like yours could be inserted quite easily?

By: Gavin

Gavin — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 08:20:17 +0000

This is by far the most visited post on our site – it’s great to see it helping so many people..

By: Niallith

Niallith — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 06:59:47 +0000

I just love you

By: ukasz

ukasz — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 19:16:28 +0000

Thanks guys! This was really helpfull.

By: Yuriy

Yuriy — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:36:27 +0000

Thanks, man! It helped much

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:50:45 +0000

Thank you SO MUCH for this post.

By: Gavin

Gavin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 11:26:39 +0000

Please note this behaviour is similar to working with the SoundTransform object, which also requires you to write the result back into the object after altering, for example, the volume property.

By: mouse doesn't fully work is slideshow is in movieclip - OXYLUS Flash Board

mouse doesn't fully work is slideshow is in movieclip - OXYLUS Flash Board — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:33:45 +0000

[...] = this.parent.localToGlobal(pt); var col=mc.mcPoza.hitTestPoint(mouseX+pt.x,mouseY+pt.y ,true); localToGlobal() in AS3 not working « Blog « Orland Media Ltd This explains the method nicely. Best, [...]

By: Gavin

Gavin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 17:57:46 +0000

Hi Brian,

Thanks. Yes, it’s important to note that objects need to be on the Display List before the stage is accessible through them.

Here’s an article where we discuss this in a bit more detail.

Keep an eye on the site via RSS if you like – every time we start a major project “gotchas” crop up and we blog them.