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Subject: FLASH: Arrays and Swapping Movie Clips
From: Mike Kelly
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 13:17:56 GMT

Hello,
I'm looking to swap a movie clip in Flash 5 according to which keyboard key
is being pressed. I've been trying to address the original movie clip as an
indexed property of the main timeline. Ie, if there's only one movie clip
on the main timeline, (_root.onlyclip) I was hoping it might be addressable
as _root[0].
That way, to swap the movieclip to _root.newclip I could just say _root[0] =
newclip.
Needless to say this doesn't seem to be working!!
Is there a simple way to swap movie clips without having one off stage and
swapping their co-ordinates? This seems very long winded, and complicates
the animation code for the visible clip.
No doubt there's a simple way of doing this (I hope), but I'm a beginner.
Thanks for suggestions,
Mike


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