FLASH: Z ordering in flash 5

[Grant Davies]

Hi,


I'm doing a title animation that works like a stack of cards, each title is

stacked under the other so only one title is visible at once.. when a button

is clicked its the top title will slide off the deck revealing the

appropriate title and then sliding under the deck of titles.


so if the title is currently "about us" and you clicked the button

"services", then I would slide "about us" down to reveal "services"  switch

the Z order of "about us" and services so that "services" was higher in the

stack and then slide "about is" under the deck. I'm using the new swapdepths

object method to set the Z ordering but and wondering how to keep track of

the order of everything, I know I can use an array and sit down and work it

out (I'm a java programmer) but want to know if there is a tutorial already

out there that I can get some ideas from for the algorithm.  The "simple"

version I have now works fine for my first two titles but then goes funny as

the Z ordering is out of synch.  If I could get the current Z order of a

clip, I could then set the next clip to appear to "order-1" but I can't see

a method that will tell me the Z order of a movie in a timeline.


Cheers

Grant

http://www.bluetube.com




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