Flash :: Changing Stacking Order

Changing Stacking Order
Hi there, first time ever on a forum so please forgive me.

I have an FLA with a section in it where I need to swap between images (one over the other and so on, which I have done using swap depth) what I want to know is if there is a way to make the transition from one pic to the other smoother by using alpha from 100% to zero, thus revealing the picture beneath.

Does anybody out there know how this is done.?

Changing Image Stacking Order With AS?
Hello all:

If I have two images on top of each other and I want to change their order (i.e., bring the back one to the front) with actionScript, how do I do it? Thanks!

JPearson311

Changing Layers Stacking Order Dynamically
I was wondering if it is possible to change the stacking order of my layers through actionscript while my swf is running? Thanks in advance for any help...
-j

Question About Changing Stacking Order (swapDepths)
I'm fairly new to actionscript so bear with me. I currently have a layer that contains six buttons, each of which on rollOver expands into a panel. I know I need a swapDepths statement bring the currently selected button in front of the other buttons. My problem is, I don't understand how actually define the depth. this is what I have assigned to the actions of each button so far:

on (rollOver){
this.swapDepths()
}

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

TOP OF STACKING ORDER POP UP
I'm building a Flash Site which makes use of Pop Up html pages to hold the content, however I want the pop up box to remain on top of the stacking order.
See the following:

http://javascript.internet.com/page-...op-window.html

I've tried to implement the script but just can't get it to work!

How do I do this in Flash?

Please help!

Regards
PADDYWALL esq

Stacking Order - How?
I'd like to know if it's possible to make (force) a MC to be displayed over another one.

I use the attachmovie method...

thanx

Stacking Order...
Hi all,

I have quite a bit of experience with animation, but I'm a total noob when it comes to actionscripts. I'm currently doing a project at work and I want to learn how to change the stacking order of movies. The transition from one page to another involves the previous page being "wiped over" by the selected page. For example, if I'm currently at the "home" page, and selected "about us" page, all the elements on the home page will be covered by the about us page. So the way I want it to work is whatever page is selected should always be on top of the page you are currently on.

Would appreciate any help, tia.

Stacking Order Of Movies
i have two movies that are running at the same time and i want to change the stacking order depending on which one is clicked on. they are obviously both viewable at the same time and i would like one to go on top of the other when clicked. any ideas? i've tried using movieclip.swapDepths(), but with no luck.

Stacking Order Issue
Hello, I have a random effect which I need to go BEHIND other elements on the timeline... this actionscript plays infront of everything. How do I get it to play behind other elements? See my problem here: http://www.buzzbbp.com/

amount = 10;
mWidth = Stage.width;
mHeight = Stage.height;
for (var i = 0; i<amount; i++) {
thisFlake = this.attachMovie("flake", "flake"+i, i);
with (thisFlake) {
_x = Math.random()*mWidth;
_y = Math.random()*mHeight;
_xscale = _yscale=_alpha=40+Math.random()*60;
}
thisFlake.yspeed = Math.random()*2+.2;
thisFlake.increment = -0.025+Math.random()*0.05;
thisFlake.radian = 1; //declare for actionscript 2.0
thisFlake.onEnterFrame = function() {
this.radians += this.increment;
//trace(this.radians);
this._x += Math.sin(this.radians);
this._y += this.yspeed;
if (this._y>=mHeight) {
this._y = 0;
this._x = 0+Math.random()*mWidth;
}
if (this._x>=mWidth || this._x<=0) {
this._y = 0;
this._x = 0+Math.random()*mWidth;
}
};
}

Stacking Order Of Duplicated MCs
I have a Flash piece that duplicates a random number of MovieClips (using duplicateMovieClip) and randomly places them. You can see it here:
http://litmusbox.com/staging2/

Trouble is, the duplicated MCs are being placed on top of other artwork. The duplicates appear on top of the text on the left side of the page. The original MC which is being duplicated resides on a layer that is under this text. However, its duplicates are being placed on top.

See my code attached. I'm not sure how "depth" applies here. From what I can tell, the only time one refers to "depth" is when you're duplicating a movie clip, and that movie clips that have not been duplicated have no way of assigning them depth. I've assigned the new MCs to have a depth of "itr-100". I'm assuming lower depth means lower stacking order. However, these duplicated MCs are clearly appearing on top.

Any ideas?

Attach Code

onEnterFrame = function () {
// create new block
thisName = "block" + itr;
duplicateMovieClip (_root.block, thisName, itr - 100);

// determine location of new block
_root[thisName]._x = (random (19) * 50) + 25;
_root[thisName]._y = (random (5) * 50) + 25;
}

[FMX] Help Needed With Stacking Order
Last edited by donaldboer : 2004-05-14 at 23:36.

I have for sub menu's on the stage for which I control the alpha fade with the following code:

ActionScript Code:
function fadeSub(l) {
for (k=0; k<but.length; k++) {
if (k != l) {
this["sub_"+but[k]].onEnterFrame = function() {
this._alpha += (0-this._alpha)/3;
if (this._alpha < 5 ) {
   this._alpha = 0;
   delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
} else {
this["sub_"+but[k]].onEnterFrame = function() {
this._alpha += (99-this._alpha)/12;
if (this._alpha > 98) {
   this._alpha = 99;
   delete this.onEnterFrame;
}
};
}
}
}

but = new Array();
but = ["agricultural", "industrial", "material", "marine"];
for (i=0; i<but.length; i++) {
this["btn_"+but[i]].i = i;
clip = this["btn_"+but[i]];
clip.onRelease = function() {
fadeSub(this.i);
};

Now I want to integrate a swapDepts in this function. Can somebody please tell me how to do that.

Cheers,
Donald

Control Stacking Order In AS3
In AS2 we had the depth property of a movie clip, in AS3 how would i change the depth of an object as the property has been removed in AS3

AddChild Stacking Order
I know I've had this problem before, but I am trying to leave all my movieClips in the library.

I have 2 movieClips.. one that stretches across the top of the screen, and another that is basically the Background of the entire flash stage.

Here is my code:
Code:

function position()
{
//THIS IS THE TOP PANEL
var bg:Topbg = new Topbg();
addChild(bg);
bg.x = 0;
bg.y = 0;
bg.width = stage.stageWidth;

//THIS IS THE BODY BACKGROUND
var bg2:Bodybg = new Bodybg();
addChild(bg2);
bg2.x = 0;
bg2.y = 75;
bg.width = stage.stageWidth;
bg.height = stage.stageHeight;
}

My problem is the "bg2" is on top of "bg". How would I declare a "stacking order".. or "level" or "z-index" ... make sense?
(sorry, i think level is the correct term here, but im not sure)

Thanks as always!
Lance

ps - I found some free time to finish the 2nd part of my site!!!

Swapdepth Stacking Order Problem
Hi all,

I'm having a swapdepths nightmare! The user should be able to drag a cylinder around a classroom table and place it any of 5 hit areas. So far they scale in perspective but I need to handle the stacking order so each cylinder scales and then moves to the correct stacking order.

I don't want it to just swap to the top because it will overlap as you'll see if you look at this [27k]:-

http://www.nu-e.co.uk/flash5/depth.html

--Erratum
Thought you campers might like to know I solved the problem and the updated version can now be viewed at the same url above
[Edited by a1digit on 07-24-2001 at 12:14 PM]

Stacking Order For Floating Menus
I have a floating movie clip idea in my site where many windows can be opened at once. they are all in the same layer. Is there a way to click on one which is covered and it comes to the front. just like the way floating pallets work in aplications. any help would be great

Loading Swf's And Stacking Order Problem
i was wondering if there was a way to, in effect, erase or stop a _level's exsistence. i am doing a site that is very content-heavy so i have all the main subpages loading as seperate swf's when trigerred by the main menu, which is it's own _level. the problem i have is that when i want to see a _level whose stacking order is below that of the one currently playing, i can't seem to find a way to get rid of the one that is playing so the one that i wan't to see isn't hidden by it. i'm tring to be as articulate as possible. if you have any suggestions i would be greatful.

Stacking Order - Swap Depths
hey guys, please help me. I have 13 buttons and on rollover they bring up a panel below them, the problem being that the last one is always on top, i have the buttons in movie clips and i'm trying to use the swapdepth command to swap the depth with a empty movie clip that is above everything else, am i way off track? can someone please help or give me come code

thanks

Yet Another _level/stacking Order Question
In this slideshow I'm doing...

I have a main page with a main menu. There's a link in there that opens the slideshow.

the slideshow is inside a MC and it is opened using attachMovie.

However, I can't seem to be able to get rid of the main menu. I end up with a mixed image of both interface.

How would you fix this problem... I have no idea really.

tks

Can Anyone Explain Or Help Me With Stacking Order (layers) In AS3
I am trying to set the depth of the of the movie clip that I created in AS3.

Basically I want the movie clip to be at the bottom of the stacking order. And it keeps appearing on top of my design or items I placed in the timeline

how can I make it so this object or movie clip is at the bottom or if I wanted to bring it to a different level?

Sending MC's To The Back (stacking Order)
Okay, let's see if you guy's can help.

Basically I have a little app where a pop up palette contains dragable movie clips that then are placed on the main stage. However when the palette pops up for a second time it remains behind the placed movie clips.

The clips have to be on top of the palette initially, but something like on release swapDepths?

Anyone got any clue as to how to fix this as it's driving me nuts.

Thanks in advance.

Stacking Order For Movie Clips
Hi Have have 3 buttons made that when clicked on it loads a movie clip. I have all that done but I want to know if you can change the stacking order so that if you click on button three that will load, and then if you click on button two I want that movie clip to go over the first movie.

And lets say if you want to go back to that first movie, I want the second one to go in the background and the other one to be view able.

this is a preview of what I have done.click

Im not sure if I make any sence :S

Actionscript Problem Stacking Order
Hi there!

I'm quite new in flash, but i would like to have my flash portfolio website up soon... so I decided to build a site with 'cards' which can be dragged around. The cards should be stacked just at random order on the site as a user enters. By clicking a card it moves to the front for viewing.
Based on the tutorial at Kirupa on 'changing stacking order (swapdepth) http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti.../swapdepth.htm i started flashing and scripting. I am quite pleased with the results so far, but I have one problem: When clicking a card, it really 'swaps' the order with the card that was up front last. Though when clicking a card, the order (and position) of the other cards should actually not change.

The .fla file can be downloaded here: http://www.basjanson.nl/portfolio.fla

Can anybody help me fixing this?

Thanks a lot in advance!!

Stacking Order Tutorial Broken - Plz Help
Nevermind, was making a stupid mistake. I would delete this post, but I do not see a way. Following the information on the link listed at the bottom fixed everything.
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Refering to the stacking order tutorial:
http://www.kirupa.com/developer/acti.../swapdepth.htm

Link to FLA for tutorial: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/code/swapwindow_final.zip
If you download the above FLA File, do not forget to change the settings to make it run using Flash 8 and not what it defaults to (6).

First let me say, I did try searching the forums and I was unable to find an answer to my issue. I'm quite new to the programming in flash and while the example works in Flash 6, it does not work in 7 or 8.

When you start clicking them in 8, it will seem like it is working, however you will notice that the depth system dies incredibly fast. Just click through Green, Yellow, Blue and green again (and so forth) and you will see what I am talking about. Other windows start popping to the front along with the one you choose (or even sometimes without the one you even want).

Any help on this matter would be Greatly appreciated!

Because I am new, I would love if someone could post a fixed fla file or email it to me at severon@gmail.com . That way I can open the file and not only read on the forum what to do, but see it first hand. That said, ANY help is very welcomed! Thanks!

P.S.
A link I did find with search was:
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=206777

However, I do not know if this fixes the player 8 issue, as I could not get it to work using what I found in that link. I am new though, so it might be my lack of experience.

Change Stacking Order (swapDepths)
Hi, I was reading an old article about swapDepths and was wondering if you could explain how you'd increase a second panel relative to the panel being dragged.

Quote:

If I want another panel to increase its stacking order in relation to this panel, I can blindly increase the stacking position of that panel, or, I can increase a variable stored on the main timeline by a certain value so all movie clips are in sync.

To describe my project, I have 4 nav movieclips that I want to swap depths on rollover and also bring a movieclip of a opacity fade-in up to one depth below the mc the mouse is over.

So basically I'm looking for this when I rollover MC1:
[MC1]
[OPACITY_MC]
[MC2]
[MC3]
[MC4]

Any help would be sweet. Thanks.
Scott

Stacking Order With FLASH Movies
Hi,

I'm curious to know how they got their menus to stack on top of the flash movie on this page. espn.com/nfl/news/
I tried to do the same once by giving my menus a super high z-index, but to no avail.

Draggable Menu Stacking Order Query.
I have several draggable/expanding menu mc's in a movie.
I would like the chosen menue to always be on top. At the moment some menus are behind others! Am I on the right track with _level or swapDepths?
Can anyone spare a few minutes and help me?
Thank you,
Ali Foote

Screens Stacking Order? Levels/Z-Index?
Been designing for years but just started in Flash MX Pro. Totally cool & a lot of new ground.

Have designed a Slide Presentation site where I have Screens Transition/Fly in on the click of a button. Pretty simple.
Problem is that the new screens are flying in on a level above my navigation buttons bar.
I'd like the flying screens to appear as if they're coming from underneath the navigation button bar.
The button bar is on the very top level Presentation screen.

Here's a link to an example of what I'm trying to do:
http://www.templatehelp.com/aff/prev...ash.asp&i=7724

I thought about masking the screens somehow as they fly in but not sure where to put the mask.
I've also researched swapDepths() action but not sure how or where to install it.
Not sure if either of these options are the correct way to acheive my goal.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
jmitteco

Problem With Stacking Order Of Dynamic Mxl Data
hi, i've got about twenty images dynamically loaded into my movie from an xml file with this script:

myXML = new XML ();
myXML.ignoreWhite = true;
myXML.load ("objects.xml");
myXML.ref = this;
myXML.onLoad = function (succes) {
if (succes) {
var root = this.firstChild;
nodes = root.childNodes;
for (var i = 0; i < nodes.length; i++) {
this.ref["Title_txt" + i].text = nodes[i].attributes.name;
subnodes = nodes[i].childNodes;
this.ref["Comments_txt" + i].text = subnodes[0].firstChild.toString ();
this.ref["holder_mc" + i].loadMovie (subnodes[1].firstChild.toString ());
}
} else {
trace ("Error loading XML document");
}
};

I manually created 20 holder_mc's each ending on a different number. the first is holder_mc0, the second is holder_mc1, etc. I did that so that I could determine the position of all the pictures on the stage. So now there is 20 images spread out across the stage all in place according to the position of where I put the holder_mc's, right? So far so good....
But! I want these damn little pictures to move to the next highest depth when the user rolls over them. And I cant get it to work.... I actually cant get anything to work with these mc's. I tried a stupid little trace function:

holder_mc0.onRollOver = function () {
trace("some trace text");
};

and that doesnt even work.... for the life of me, I dont understand why!

can someone help me out here? I need to get this stacking order to work properly and I want the user to able to click on these holder_mc's to launch a popup with a bigger picture... HELP PLEASE!

Screens Stacking Order? Levels/Z-Index?
Been designing web sites for years but just started in Flash MX Pro. Totally cool & a lot of new ground.

Have designed a Slide Presentation site Where I have Screens Transition/Fly in on the click of a button. Pretty simple.
Problem is that the new screens are flying in on a level above my navigation buttons bar.
I'd like the flying screens to appear as if they're coming from underneath the navigation button bar.
The button bar is on the very top level Presentation screen.

Here's a link to an example of what I'm trying to do:
http://www.templatehelp.com/aff/prev...ash.asp&i=7724

I thought about masking the screens somehow as they fly in but not sure where to put the mask.
I've also researched swapDepths() action but not sure how or where to install it.
Not sure if either of these options are the correct way to acheive my goal.
Maybe there's a completely different way of laying this out?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
jmitteco

Stacking Order Of Flash Movies In Html
Hi all,

I'm using a dropdown menu (created with NavStudio) on a site that also contains one flash element on the side. One section of the dropdown menu overlaps the flash movie, but the movie seems to have precendence, and covers the dropdown menu where it overlaps.

How can I bring the dropdown menu to the front and send the flash movie to the back? I couldn't see any script in the <object> tags for the swf that affects it's stacking order in html.

Is there a little piece of code to look for in my js files for the dropdown that affects its stacking order?

Thanks
C

Overlapping Menus In CS3/AS3, Stacking Order Problem?
Hey Everyone,

I've been working with this file for quite some time now.

I have several buttons in this file - for example, general information. From this button (actually mc, using hittest to function as a faux button), another menu springs out.

This menu overlaps the button underneath it.

The problem I've been having is that, when the submenu pops out, the user is still able to activate the buttons beneath the submenu (it overlaps the other "main" buttons).

My solution was to "hide" the movieclips that are overlapped by the submenus, like this:

Code:
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
_root.btn_gen.direction = "ff";
_root.btn_cal._visible = false;
_root.btn_foot._visible = false;
_root.btn_inj._visible = false;

} else {
_root.btn_gen.direction = "rr";
_root.btn_cal._visible = true;
_root.btn_foot._visible = true;
_root.btn_inj._visible = true;
}
}
Basically, turning off the movie clips that I know are being
... removing them from the equation until the active mc has been moused off.

However, this only seems to work on the button that is set to be all the way in the back of the stacking order: -16383 (I've achieved this stacking order by setting the mc to "send to back").

once I move it away from the back layer, it no longer functions as I anticipated it would by coding it the way I did.

I'm wondering if there's a way to dynamically change the stacking order (I've been messing with this all day but with no success) or if there's a completely different and better way to set this up.

I've been looking at it for so long, I can no longer see any other way to do it other than the method I've just explained.

An interesting challenge for me... but probably something easy for the lot of you.

Please - I really need help!

- Tom

Reset Stacking Order Depths? (Flash MX)
Is there anyway to reset the stacking order depths in Flash MX (i.e., let Flash figure out how to arrange stacking of static text boxes, input text boxes, and buttons)? Or to have each item be given a unique position in the stacking order?

My problem is that I have several static/input text boxes and one button in a frame that are not showing up when I test the movie. I was thinking that this might because I unwittingly "Sent all to Back". Is there a fix for this? I'm not sure why else they would not display in the movie test.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
kentara

[flash8] AS Rollovers And Movie Clips Stacking Order
I used the super helpful tutorial at: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx20...ton_effect.htm to answer my question, but now I have another one.

I followed the tutorial exactly to create rollover animations of islands on a map. The islands are all on one layer and have all been converted into movie clips. Each of these movie clips have their own script to run when a user rolls over each one and to disappear when the user rolls out.

The only thing is that when one island does its animation, it is being covered up by an island adjacent to it.

How do you control the stacking arrangement of the movie clips so that if one plays, all the others are behind it and not over it?

To see the swf, go to http://www.tokkisom.com/splash_map2.html

"test Movie" Z-stacking Order
Hello,

theres one thing bout the new ide wich drives me nuts..
if i click "test movie" the swf is displayed below! all other panels in regards to z-stacking order, is there any way to change this behaviour?

best regards
Martin

Changing Order -----> HELP
Have a list with 7 duplicated mc's that are placed underneath eachother.

The goal is that the user can change the order of the list so f.ex the first one on the place of the third one. the fifth on the second place etc.

this is what i put as codes

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
_root.newmouse = _ymouse;
_root.mouse2 = _root.newmouse;
original_name = this._name;
this._name = "dragged";
for (i=1; i<=7; i++) {
if (this.hittest(_root.roller["dup"+i])) {
_root.dragmovie = this;
_root.hitmovie = _root.roller["dup"+i];
}
}
this._name = original_name;
}

Now with this script I can detect which one I drag and which one is hit. But the problem is that when I drag a mc down so f.ex mc2 to mc 5 it does it all fine but when I drag i upwards f.ex mc4 to mc2 he doesn't detect I hit mc2. it seems the script works all fine downards bu not upwards.

Tried lots of things but nothing works. I'm a bit desperate here.....

Changing Mc Order With AS?
Hi!

How can I change the order of a mc (for instances, send it to back, bring it to front, or up/down one order level) at runtime with AS?

Thanks!

Changing The /TAB/ Order?
This might be insane, but is there a way to change the order in which you can TAB through the button icons in your published flash movie? I can't figure out what method it's using to scroll through them. My best guess is that it's the order in which they were added to the movie??

The reason this is an issue for this movie is I have a User Name and Password spot. It's intuitive for folks to enter their User Name, then /Tab/ to the Password field, but instead it bounces them through a couple of navigation buttons before they reach the password field.

Any ideas?

Thanks!!
Jason

Changing Stack Order
Hopefully this is an easy question. How do you change the stacking order of MCs that are on the same layer. I.E. I have two (or more) MCs that depending on events, will pass in front of each other, but I need to be able to change which one is on the top so that it doesn't pass behind the others.

Changing Section Order
I am in desperate need of help. I have "inherited" the maintenence of a web site containing a flash movie www.flyingpoint.net/flash/flyingpoint.swf . The client now wants that after the intro has played, or after the user skips the intro that the section "50 ways...." will come up. I have tried putting in key frames with the goto and play action directed to the frame that starts that section but it doesnt work. Where should i put that action? what should i add?

http://www.flyingpoint.net

Changing Scene Order
I am putting together a movie and I need to swap the order of scene 1 and scene 2. It there a simeple way to do this?

Also, in searching for other posts about this I came across one in which the recommend not using scenes for the web, should I look into a different way of making this movie? Thanks!

Changing Layer Order
Hi,
I have some buttons with bg effects on them and I would like to have the button that the mouse is on top of become the top button (or layer). Each button (5 total) are on separate layers, so it's a matter of changing the layer order, not the z-order.

Did MM make this possible when they built Flash?

Thanks.

Changing Layer Order
**i know of the swapdepth AS, but then how do I get the depth to change for two objects...in this circumstance, there are 4 buttons...the one that gets clicked should come to the very top, the curtain is next, and the rest of the buttons behind***

i have a theatre type stage with objects on it...when user clicks on the object, i want it to come forward, have the curtains close and only have that object be visible now with a closed curtain....

the question here then is:

how do i change layer orders so that when a certain object is clicked, that objects layer goes above the curtain layer while the rest of the object remain behind the layer, so that when the curtain closes, only the selected object remains ahead of the curtain (the rest behind)?

any help would be appreciated...thanks!

Changing Order Of Movieclips
Hi,

So here is my problem:

I got 3 buttons which all open a different movieclip to the same x/y location.

How do I change it so that when I click a button the movieclip opens on top of the other movieclips? Also I'd like to close all the movieclips before I move to another frame.

Thanks a lot!

Changing Movies Level/order
Hi. Does anybody knows how to change the level of several movies loaded one over the other?.
The situation is this: a have a base movie (on the root 0 level) which have the main links, scenes, etc; another movie (level 1) with the music; another movie on level 2 that is like another scene of the main movie, but i choosed the load it apart because of it´s size; finally another movie (level 3)wich handles a mouse cursor.
The movie/scene on level 2 contains a simbol with zooming capabilities which, when zoomed enough, covers some buttons wich are placed on the main movie and have to stay there.
The question is: Does exist in Actionscript the possibility to change the level of this movies, so I can place the main movie over the special scene, while this last one is displayed?.
Thanx in advance, and sorry for my english

Marcelo