im taking a box, and using it to drive the film translate attribute in a camera zoom_camShape.filmTranslate = pan640x480.translateX; the box is named pan640x480. basically, when i move the box, teh film translate attribute will change and my focus on what im looking at will change. i need to do it to the x and y coordinates. i'll tell you right now, i have about a week of experience with expressions. the other half of this project i figured out myself. but i don't know much of the language for what i want or can do. i had an "if" statement earlier but it didn't help, and i got the same error message. thanks