Re: FLASH: Z Sorting (was OT: a MILLION dollars)

[John McKenzie]

Helen Triolo wrote:


> Neither of those is causing your problem, but

> 

> 3) duplicating a movieclip from inside a movieclip doesn't seem like the

> right approach.  Duplicating it from the main timeline, or some other

> "base" rather than in the movieclip itself, seems like the logical

> approach.  But I haven't looked at the fla you mentioned from

> praystation, so don't know exactly what you're doing -- that's just my

> initial reaction to the code you posted.


Helen,


thanks for your reply. I am still a little boggled by when to use = and when

to use eq, et cetera. I would like to know what your programmer brain thinks

of Actionscript in general!


I'm doing it from inside the clip because the clip is a "window" like any

normal program window, and the button that this actionscript is attached to

is the "grabbable" area of the window.


If I ever get it to work, I will surely post it. In fact, I kind of have to

post it, so I guess that means it's going to work soon.


thanks for your time,


John McKenzie

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