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Attach and Place the Ship
OK, if you've been following along with these tutorials, this shouldn't be much of a challenge. We're going to get this spaceship on the stage: Vertical center and about 100 pixels from the left side of the stage. We might want to change that later, so we'll get to work declaring variables:
var sH:Number = Stage.height;
var shipX:Number = 100;
Pretty standard... we declared the sH variable with a value equal to the height of the stage (Stage.height). We also declared the shipX variable with a value of 100.
Now we'll create a function to attach the ship to the stage, and set the x and y position. We'll call that function init:
var sH:Number = Stage.height;
var shipX:Number = 100;
function init () {
attachMovie("ship","ship",2000);
ship._x = shipX;
ship._y = sH/2;
}
Now we'll call the init function so it runs at the start of the movie:
var sH:Number = Stage.height;
var shipX:Number = 100;
init ();
function init () {
attachMovie("ship","ship",2000);
ship._x = shipX;
ship._y = sH/2;
}
That's it. Our ship should be centered vertically. Check to make sure it's working for you:
