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[TheConeHead]

I need to be able to change the layering position on the fly. Like say you have 3 squares on top off each other so you could only see the top. When someone clicks a button, the bottom one comes to the top... how would this be done?

 

[wangbar]

movieClip.swapDepths([i]number[/i])

This lets you specify any number or a variable to set the depth index of a movieclip - bigger numbers appear on top. So just set the depth of the clip when the button is clicked to a higher number.

clip.onRelease=function(){
this.swapDepths(1000);
}

 

[TheConeHead]

does this still work if they are in different layers since when the movie is published the layers are essentially done away with?

 

[TheConeHead]

nevermind - works great!

 

[wangbar]

Yeah - 'layers' only exist in the authoring environment to make it easy to build stuff, once it's published 'depth' is all that matters.