Re: FLASH: Actionscript F5:swapDepths

[Helen Triolo]

Paul,


I think it was created for using with duplicated movieclips (but that's

just my guess and could be a wrong assumption).  But it does seem to

work with movieclips inside another (parent) movieclip as well.  I

created two clips, green and blue, inside holder (with blue in front of

green initially), on the main timeline, then added three buttons:


1st button:

on (press) {

  holder.green.swapDepths(5);

}


2nd button:

on (press) {

  holder.blue.swapDepths(7);

}


3rd button:

on (press) {

  holder.green.swapDepths(10);

}


and clicking them in that order (1, then 2, then 3) made the green pop

to the front, then blue, then green again.  It isn't really swapping the

values, just replacing one.


I also added a 4th button with this action:


on (press) {

  holder.green.swapDepths(_root.holder["blue"]);

}


and a 5th with this:


on (press) {

  holder.green.swapDepths(holder.blue);

}


and they both worked to swap the depth of blue and green back and forth.


Regards,

Helen 

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Paul Willoughby wrote:

> 

> Hi all,

> 

> Has anyone tried using the swapDepths in Flash 5? Is it only possible to

> swap the Depths of movie clips that are duplicates of the same instance

> (this is what it seems to say in the reference documents)? Or is there a

> way to swap the depths of two movie clips that are within another clip,

> but aren't duplicates?

> I think I'm confused over the use of the term 'parent movie clip'. I've

> seen it being used as referring to a master MC which you make duplicates

> from, or as an MC that contains nested MC's. Which is the correct

> definition in Flashspeek?

> 

> Cheers!

> 

> paul

>


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