There are 19 different get properties that you can use to find the current values of objects in Flash. All Get Property names begin with an underscore, have no spaces and are all lowercase. Whereas, the names for properties when being "set", start with capital letters and may have spaces. For instance, the vertical position parameter is called Y Position in Set Property, but it is _y for Get Property.

The Expression Editor has a list of all the correct names and you can double click on a name to enter it into your script.

In our example below, our bird rotates one degree at a time. Frame two, increments and displays the rotation. To display the changing rotation the frame must change, so a loop is created between frame 3 and frame 2.

Set Variable: "x" = x +  1
Set Property ("/Bird", Rotation) = x

To find the current rotation of the movie clip Bird, we use Get Property. Pressing the Check button moves the the animation to frame 4 where we set the variable Rotation to the rotation property of the bird and we display it in a text box using the same variable name Rotation.

Set Variable: "Rotation" = GetProperty ( "/Bird",_rotation)

Notice, how the rotation property starts at zero and increases to 180 degrees and then becomes negative going from - 179 back to zero again.

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Get Properties

_x                Horizonal X Position
_y                Vertical Y Position
_width            Width
_height           Height
_rotation         Rotation
_target           Target Path
_name             Instance Name
_url              URL
_xscale           X Scale Factor
_yscale           Y Scale Factor
_currentframe     Current Frame
_totalframes      Total Frames
_framesloaded     Frames Loaded
_alpha            Alpha Transparency Percentage
_visible          Visibility
_droptarget       Drag action's Drop Position

Global Get Properties

_highquality      High Quality
_focusrectangle   Show Focus Rectangle
_soundbuftime     Sound Pre buffer Time