createemptymovieclip behind other layers!!!!

[pollux0]

i am trying to create an empty movie clip in a flash movie on the fly. it is working but it is being created in front of other stuff in other layers when it really should be in the background. i thought "depth" would take care of this but it does not. thanks in advance!!

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("theback", 0);
_root.theback.loadMovie("images/plane.jpg"

 

[frozenpeas]

I suppose you could just move the layer on the timeline. frozenpeas

 

[pollux0]

how does flash know what layer to create the empty movie clip? You cannot specify it in the actionscript.

 

[wangbar]

You have to convert the items that you wnat your empty clip to appear behind to movieclips too. Then you can use swapDepths() (or attachMovie) to set their depths to be in front of your new clip.