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MovieClip.moveTo

Availability
Flash Player 6.

Usage
myMovieClip .moveTo ( x , y )

Parameters
x An integer indicating the horizontal position relative to the registration point of the parent movie clip.

y An integer indicating the vertical position relative to the registration point of the parent movie clip.

Returns
Nothing.

Description
Method; moves the current drawing position to ( x , y ). If any of the parameters are missing, this method fails and the current drawing position is not changed.

Example
This example draws a triangle with 5-point, solid magenta lines and no fill. The first line creates an empty movie clip to draw with. Inside the with statement, a line type is defined; then the starting drawing position is indicated by the moveTo method.

_root.createEmptyMovieClip( "triangle", 1 );
with ( _root.triangle )
{
lineStyle( 5, 0xff00ff, 100 );
moveTo( 200, 200 );
lineTo( 300,300 ); 
lineTo( 100, 300 );
lineTo( 200, 200 );
}