Re: FLASH: bring to front ...

[Court Batson]

Hey Gavin,

I'm not sure if I understand, but it sounds like you may be mixing 

load/unload movie with regular layers in the main timeline as well as 

properties of a button (as far as I know, you can only set properties 

of instanced movie clips) Either way, you can still get it to work 

though.


You can set the visibility of an instanced movie clip to 0, but not a 

button. If you want to set a button's visibility to  0, you could 

have it in a separate movie and use the load/unload movie to show or 

hide it. If you use this method, you will also have to have the wall 

in a movie and load it into a layer above the button.


Another option would be to have the first ball be a movie clip and 

not a button. Using an invisible button, you can track the keypress 

and avoid use of load/unload. Once you have all the balls as 

instanced movie clips, setting their visibility properties to 0 and 

x and y position properties should be a snap.


If anyone sees any error in this thinking, then please correct me.


Good luck,

Court


>Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 16:32:35 -0000

>

From: Gavin Prior <Gavin [dot] Priordk [dot] com>

>Subject: FLASH: bring to front ...

>

>Hi all,

>

>The problem;

>

>I have a wall with a hole in the centre.  Behind the wall is a circle that

>is draggable and goes "behind" the wall.  I want to be able to press the

>space bar and the circle will be in front of the wall and also draggable in

>front of the wall.

>

>

>What I have done so far;

>

>I have a button (the circle) which is in a movie.  I have given the instance

>a name; "ball1".  This sits in a layer behind the wall. This all works fine

>and drags nicely behind the wall with a snap back action on release.

>

>I also have another instance of the circle called "ball 2" which is off the

>stage.  I have duplicated this and called it "ball 3" with a depth of 10 so

>that it sits in front of the wall and is also draggable with the snap back

>action and a drop area.

>

>Nice...

>

>

>What I can't figure out;

>

>The interaction bit between clicking the spacebar, removing "ball 1" (this

>is on a layer so will I have to "hide" it rather than removing?), and then

>bringing up "ball 3".  It's all there, I just can't get my head around this

>one bit.

>

>Any suggestions?

>

>Thanks for listening.


Court Batson

courtbentmedia [dot] com

Bent Media

New Orleans, LA 70130

USA

http://www.bentmedia.com/



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