swapDepths issue

[PaulFynch]

i searched the forum, and couldn't find an applicable answer.

i am creating empty clips in my movie that are loading individual images from an external source.

when a particular button is pressed, i would like a mc with a nested text box to display text relative to the image.

the original images are loaded into holders example h3, h2, h1 in the root of the movie

i cannot seem to get a depth value from these using the getDepth method, and furthermore, cannot seem to place my textbox mc above the depths of the images

this code in frame 1

for(i=_root.index; i>-1; i--){
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("h"+i,i);
_root["h"+i]._x=341;}

should place the depths at 3, 2, 1 and 0 respectively....

when i use this code

_root.myTextBox.swapDepths(5);
trace(_root.myTextBox.getDepth);


my swapDepths appears not to work, and my trace returns "undefined"

any suggestions would be awesome...

cheers
paul

 

[oldnewbie]

Are you stacking all of those clips one over the other? And allways want your text box to appear over the top one, when swithching depths on the different clips?

 

[PaulFynch]

the clips are in a consecutive order as far as depths go, or should be, one one is present at a time, i want the text box (which will dynamically load a text file according to the index) to jump to a higher depth when the button on the left of the page is pressed.
i just have an instance of a square box on the stage to test the swapDepths method, but have had no luck

http://www3.telus.net/fynch/my3.zip

check it out...

and thanks for your help last time, worked like a charm

cheers, paul

 

[PaulFynch]

sorry....
i uploaded the old version...
try that again..

http://www3.telus.net/fynch/my3.zip

thanks

 

[PaulFynch]

ha ha ha
me feel dumm
the reason i could't get a depth on the textbox is because i named the instance "tb" which coincidentally, is the name of a variable on the root for my preloader.
thank you to anyone who looked at this

cheers
paul