swapDepth

[bugg]

I have a series of dragable, scaleable images on my stage, an I am having trouble with them covering each other up. swapDepth works with images that are all within the same parent movie, but if they are in different parent movies, it doesn't work, any ideas (Aside from putting them all in the same parent movie?)

here is the function used to swapDepths:

function startdrg (img,pic) {
img.swapDepths( 500 );
img.gotoAndStop (1);
startDrag (img, false, -756, -555, (-90-(pic._width-74)),(-125-(pic._height-120)));
};

the images ("img" in the function) reside in the following MC tree:

_root
icons
rbicons
res
img1
img2
img3
img4
plaz
imgA
imgB
imgC
imgD

imgs 1,2,3,4 all swapDepths with each other fine, as do A,B,C,D but just not with each other (1&A,2&D,etc.)

thanks much
bugg

 

[frozenpeas]

Can you post your fla?

 

[Shane54]

analyze your processing bugg, on startDrag(), the depth of each that was being dragged was changed to a fixed value(500), thus creating an error of having all these movies being set with the same depth value.

That is, what you should do is that to reset their original depth value after they were dropped from being dragged. Thereby making it that the depth value 500 is assigned only to the currently being dragged movie instance.

have a smooth one,
Shane54

 

[wangbar]

That's not how swapDepths() works Shane - the clip that was at depth 500 is placed at the depth last occupied by the clip that is now being set to 500. The clips actually swap places.

I don't think there's a way to programatically get around the problem of having clips swap depths in separate movies because of the way the internal layer stack works in the Flash Player.