RE: [flasher] Levels (Revised Depths section)

[AndyA]

Revised Section:


Depth is order

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When you do duplicate movieclip though you tell it three things:


duplicateMovieClip (original to copy from, new name, Depth)


Depth here, has nothing to do with level. Depth is about Z-ordering. When

you have lots of movieclips moving around, at times they are going to

overlap. The depth setting helps flash decide which of the movies should be

on top and which of the movies should be below others. The ones on the

highest Depths are always in front of the lower ones when presented on the

screen.


Sometimes, you'll want a movieclip that is up high on the top Depth to

suddenly go behind another movieclip lower down. This is when you use

swapDepths(). swapDepths() lets you play musical chairs with the movieclips,

so that the one you want to be on top, gets to be on top by swapping its

chair (depth) with another movieclip. Simple!


Only movieclips can swapDepths.





For some reaons (maybe because it's 3:30 am here... I put the word level in

that section a few times, which would only have served to confuse....


Apologies


Andy