Display text over movie clip

[AP81]

Hi Guys,

I am trying to display text over a dynamic movie clip. For simplicity sake I have deleted all other layers apart from the two I need and both only contain one keyframe.

Scene 1 has two layers :

1. Text
2. Image


Text layer code

MessageData = new LoadVars();
MessageData.onLoad = function() {
	txtLine1 = this.line1; // txtLine1 is the Var property of the textbox
	txtLine2 = this.line2; // txtLine2 is the Var property of the textbox
	txtLine3 = this.line3; // txtLine3 is the Var property of the textbox
};
MessageData.load("config.txt"); //open the config.txt file for to read in line1, line2 and line3.

Image Layer code

showImg = function(picName)
{
	//set the position of picHolder movie clip
	picHolder._x = 0;
	picHolder._y = 0;
	//picHolder._alpha = 30;

	//Load the pictures
	picHolder.loadMovie(picName);
}

createEmptyMovieClip("picHolder", 1);
showImg("backdrop.jpg");

What I want to do is have the text from the text layer display on top of the Image layer. I can set the _alpha value in the showImage function, but I want the text on top of the image with no alpha blending.

Both these functions work fine. Take into account that I don't want to hard-code any images or text (they must be read from variables in files). For this example I have left "backdrop.jpg" hard-coded in the action script.

Thanks in advance.






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[oldnewbie]

Stick the textfield(s) in a movie clip, and make sure that movie clip is at a higher depth than the picture holder clip, by always swapping their depths...

http://www.adobe.com/support/flash/...pt_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary571.html

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