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Loading External Movies From Inside A Movieclip...
Hi people,

I am in the middle of a project and having a serious problem with the interface.
Basically the interface is consists of a fla movie called index. This looks like a cd set half way of its box, this movie pulls in another fla movie for the cover (cover.fla) and another for the main content (showcase_main.fla). There is also a diary section that I want to load over main content (its called diary.fla). The problem is this: Since the main menu is inside a movieclip on the index stage I can not figure out how to make this menu control the loading of other fla movies (ie diary.fla) into the index stage, basically what I want to do is be able to click on the main menu “diary” so that this loads the diary.fla over the showcase_main.fla on the index stage. I know this may sounds confusing so I have attached the files for someone to look at. Can someone please help? Your time is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

G’luck.

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Loading A Swf Into A Movieclip Inside Another Movieclip
Hi, i am having a main.swf which has a movieclip in the form of a window. it's instance name is window_mc. this window has an empty movieclip called load_mc and i am trying to load another swf called login.swf into window_mc.load_mc using

window_mc.load_mc.loadMovie("login.swf");

both main and login swfs are having resolution 1000x780.. but wen it is loaded as said above, the texts inside the loaded swf looks very large. the resolution looks as if they are different.. please help me on this... i haven't tried loading movieclips much. but wen i load a swf into an empty movieclip, it wrks perfectly fine...

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Rotating Movieclip Inside A Button, Inside A Scrolling Menu Bar
Hi all,

I'm pretty new to actionscript, and I'm kinda moving along; up until now.

I've used the the infinite scrolling menu tute at kirupa.com, created my own button graphics, and have a nice scrolling menu. On the buttons, I'm adding an image (which seems to need to be a movie clip to work), so when you rollover the button, the image will spin.

The code for the spinning works. I've tested it on the root frame of a new movie, and in the button of the infinite scrolling menu movie. I've added the code to spin the image on the "over" frame of the button timeline. With the button scene open, I run "test scene", stop it, and move between the frames. When I advance to the rolloever frame, the image spins like a top, but when I test it from the root of the movie, the image does not spin. I've also added a color change "that works" from the root when you rollover the button, but the not the spinning image.

I've added the image by editing the button from the library. I select the image, and add the code inside an onClipEvent(enterFrame) action.

I've also tried adding the code to the keyframe of the root scene in layer 1, and tried calling the image by the full path (_root.one_button.buttons.button1.spin1._rotation= blah) thinking it needs to know exacty where the image(movie clip) is at in the heirarchy to no avail. I've even went back and gave everything an instance name up unto the button I'm trying all this on.

Any help would be appreciated, since I'm about ready to shed tears over this.

Thanks!

-Sam

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OnRollOver() Inside MoveClip Inside MovieClip Doesnt Work
could someone help with this. i dont know why the onRollOver function doesnt work for my submenu button. trace("over main btn") for mainmenu button works fine but trace("over submenu btn"); doesnt work :/

ActionScript Code:
CreateMainMenu = function (x, y, depth, node_xml) {
var cNode;
var cItem;
var cMenu = this.createEmptyMovieClip("mainMenu", 0);
for (var i = 0; i<node_xml.childNodes.length; i++) {
cNode = node_xml.childNodes[i];
cItem = cMenu.attachMovie("mainMenuBtn", "mc"+i, i);
cItem._x = menu_x+i*(cItem._width+5);
cItem._y = menu_y;
cItem.menuname = cNode.attributes.name;
cItem.node_xml = cNode;
if (cNode.nodeName != "menu") {
cItem.arrow._visible = false;
}
cItem.onRollOver = function() {
this.gotoAndStop(2);
h = 0;
clearInterval(newInt);
trace("over main btn");
subMen = this.createEmptyMovieClip("subMenu",200);
newInt = setInterval(openSubMenu, 50, this._x,this._y,subMen,this.node_xml);
}
cItem.onRollOut = function() {
this.gotoAndStop(1);
this.subMenu.removeMovieClip();
};
}
};

openSubMenu = function (x,y,clip,node) {
if(h<node.childNodes.length) {
subM = clip.attachMovie("subMenuBtn","subBtn"+h,300+h);
subM.menuname = node.childNodes[h];
subM._visible = true;
subM._y = subM._height*(h+1);
subM.onRollOver = function() {
trace("over submenu btn"); //<------------- it doesnt work :(
}
h++;
} else { clearInterval(newInt); }
};

var menu_x = alertArea._x;
var menu_y = alertArea._y;
menu_xml = new XML();
menu_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
menu_xml.onLoad = function(succeed) {
if (succeed) {
alertArea._visible = false;
CreateMainMenu(menu_x, menu_y, 0, this.firstChild);
} else {
alertArea.alert = "error: XML not successfully loaded";
}
};
menu_xml.load("menu.xml");

sample xml file for this menu:

ActionScript Code:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<menu name="XML Menu">
<menu name="firm">
<item name="about" link="http://#"/>
<item name="portfolio" link="http://#"/>
<item name="contact" link="http://#"/>
</menu>
</menu>

does anybody know what is the problem ?

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Rotating Movieclip Inside A Button, Inside A Scrolling Menu Bar
Hi all,

This question is going ignored in some other boards, so I thought I'd try here....

I'm pretty new to actionscript, and I'm kinda moving along; up until now.

I've used the the infinite scrolling menu tute at kirupa.com, created my own button graphics, and have a nice scrolling menu. On the buttons, I'm adding an image (which seems to need to be a movie clip to work), so when you rollover the button, the image will spin.

The code for the spinning works. I've tested it on the root frame of a new movie, and in the button of the infinite scrolling menu movie. I've added the code to spin the image on the "over" frame of the button timeline. With the button scene open, I run "test scene", stop it, and move between the frames. When I advance to the rolloever frame, the image spins like a top, but when I test it from the root of the movie, the image does not spin. I've also added a color change "that works" from the root when you rollover the button, but the not the spinning image.

I've added the image by editing the button from the library. I select the image, and add the code inside an onClipEvent(enterFrame) action.

I've also tried adding the code to the keyframe of the root scene in layer 1, and tried calling the image by the full path (_root.one_button.buttons.button1.spin1._rotation= blah) thinking it needs to know exacty where the image(movie clip) is at in the heirarchy to no avail. I've even went back and gave everything an instance name up unto the button I'm trying all this on.

Any help would be appreciated, since I'm about ready to shed tears over this.

Attached is the zipped fla file

Thanks!

-Sam

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Target Movieclip Inside External Swf
Hi, I need help.

I'm trying to target a movieclip inside a loaded external swf from the main.swf. The external swf is loaded into 'holder' and I want to target 'maintxt' mc which is inside of 'main.bg' mc in the external swf.

I've tried:
Code:

backbtn.onRelease = function(){
holder.main.bg.maintxt._alpha = 0;
}
But flash doesn't detect the main.bg movie clip. How can I fix it?

Thanks,

ayok

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hey everyone,

loading an xml file into the main main root works fine. but when i place the load xml function inside of a movie clip, it is no longer functional. why is that?

Kristian

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Using Variables Inside A External Swf, Loaded Into Movieclip
I have the code

Code:
createEmptyMovieClip("sub_mc", 1);
sub_mc.loadMovie("sub.swf");

to load the external swf file. However, the swf file loaded above contains some variables I would like to access in the main movie. These vars are declared on the root of the sub.swf such as
var name = "this";

Writing script on the first frame of the main movie, how can I reference the vars?

I've tried
trace (_level1.name);
but I get "undefined".

Any thoughts?

cheers

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hi, im using AS 2.0 and i have run into a little roadblock in my current project. basically, i have an external swf with buildings and other things on it, drawn in a 3D view (not actual 3D though) and i am using swapdepths() to layer the buildings in the right order by setting their depth to their _y value, giving objects closer to the camera a higher depth

now, my problem is that i have a character that is also having his depth set according to his _y value, but he is OUTSIDE of my holder movieclip that the external swf is being loaded in to. therefore, the character can move around and his depth is being swapped, however when you walk behind one of the buildings the character is still on top, leading me to believe that the externally loaded buildings are not having their depths swapped.

i think that this is due to the fact that the buildings inside the parent movieclip cannot leave that same parent movieclip, so they are stuck not being able to change depths, unlike my character who can. what i need is help making my buildings also swap. so that they are able to be above the character when he is behind them, and below the character when he is in front of them. i know how this should be achieved, but the fact that they are stuck inside the movieclip is stopping my code from working, and yet it has to be done this way, so i cannot simply dump all of the scenarios into my main file which would fix the problem

any help on getting around the problem of swapdepths being affected by parent movieclips would be greatly appreciated, assuming its at least possible, or suggestions on a workaround, thanks.

EDIT: also, i am sure that the problem is not simply that the building's _y value is too small, as i set one of them to 10000 which should have therefore been on top of everything, but it wasn't...

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Loading Variables For Inside A Movieclip...
How do i load variables from an external .txt file into a movieclip....
It works when i just make a dynamical text field and load the variables, the text comes in the textfield.
But when i make an mc of it... it stops working..
plzz help, i would appreaciate it very much

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Loading Outside Variable Inside Movieclip
I have a movie clip that needs to load an outside Variable and I know how to do it if the Variable is in the main time line.

=========

Main TimeLine:
timedelay = 5;

MovieClip
timedelay = _root.timedelay

===========

What I can not figure out is how to load a variable in a movie clip that is on the Instance of itself (not in the movie clip).

I am fine if I only use one instance of the movie clip at a time on the stage since I can set the Variable on the Main TimeLine into the movieclip (using .root), but this would not work correctly if I want two instances of a movieclip with differenct variables.

Right now I am having to make duplicate copies of a movie clip with different Variable names. I was hoping there would be some way where I could only use one movie clip and give it different variables.

Anybody?

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Hi! Does someone can help me with such a problem:
http://www.test.w3.com.pl/mikolaj/000mik/xxx.fla
What action should i put at the end of MovieClip [inside] from scene 3, to jump to beggining of Scene 2?
Thanks, Thiefunny.

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I'm trying to create a gradient masking effect for one of my flash applications using the technique described here: http://www.devx.com/webdev/Article/29296. Everything works fine as long as I implement it at the root scene level but if I want to embed the mask and maskee into a movieclip or an external SWF and then add that movieclip/SWF to my main scene, the mask is simply not applied and the two elements appear as solid objects.

Has anybody experienced a similar problem? If you have an idea how it could be solved I'd appreciate some help.

FYI, I'm using Flash 8 on Windows and I have Flash Player 9.

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Hi,

I guess i've worked a lot in FlashMX and created quite a bit of things. Including working with Flash & php/mySQL etc., so i wouldn't call myself a newbie, but in this particular case, please strictly regard me as one as i have no clue how to go about.

I have a mainframe interface which had a preloader.
After a certain frame is reached.. on the click of a button, A huge set of images with some interactivity/nagivation are to appear... i want them to Preload .. but only after the Click of that button in the mainframe. If i combine total preloading, it will take a lot of time.. so i want the user to get into something, then when he clicks the button, this particular new movie clip loads.

So this is like a Preloader for Movie Clip which is not preloaded in the initial Preloader for the entire Movie. I have seen this so much in so many places.

Apart from this, there is another problem. Thing is, this new MovieClip is supposed to be controlled/navigated, through buttons in the mainframe system which appear even before this new clip is loaded. When i'll be making ActionScripts for this.. will there be any problem? If i make normal reference to this new Clip. will it work? Or is something specific to be done then?

Thanks...

2Shy

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hey all,

I was wondering how to create a loading bar (or "preloader") inside a movieclip. I've had a try at this by copying the code from tutorials where the loadingbar is on the main timeline.

The main reason the loading bar has to be inside a movieclip is that the loading bar is going to be placed at an angle (as I've found that if you alter the angle of a movieclip the X & Y coordinates of the actionscripting alters along with it).

I basicly need help sorting out the path or route as to where the actionscript is going to get its information... I think. I'm not sure if the correct commands are _root, or _parent, or "this" or this... if anyone can help me with this I think it'll give me a greater understanding of how actionscripting makes objects relate with each other and at what levels.

Right now if I preview it with "show streaming" enabled I see a blank white screen for a while instead of my loadingbar, and then the rest of my movie.

heres the code i've used:

Quote:

bytes_loaded = Math.round(_root.graphics_mc.getBytesLoaded());
bytes_total = Math.round(_root.graphics_mc.getBytesTotal());
getPercent = bytes_loaded/bytes_total;
_root.graphics_mc._root.graphics_mc.loadBar._width = getPercent*385;
if (bytes_loaded == bytes_total) {
_root.graphics_mc.gotoAndPlay(3);
}

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Hello script guru's i really need you help.
I want load text variables to the movieclip inside.
heres the script.

Code:
on (release) {
_root.txtBox.text = "Messages"; \outside movieclip WORKS FINE
_root.contentMc.txtBox.text = "Messages"; \inside movieclip NOT LOADING
}

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PLEASE HELP!!! I'm in desperate need of assistance. I've been at this for a while and can't figure it out.

I need to:
*Load Dynamic text into a container that (fades in the content and stops). It needs to be controlled by a movie clip acting as a button. I can't figure out how to link up the code so that it works properly. I have five different buttons that will bring up different text each time it is clicked. It needs to fade in with each click. I was able to set it up correctly if everything is on the main timeline, however I have a scrolling banner that has the movieclips (acting as buttons) nested within them and the code will not work. So I am clueless at this point. PLEASE HELP if you know how to do this! I would gladly appreciate it.

Movie clip as button has the following code:

Attach Code

on (release) {
loadText = new loadVars();
loadText.load("text1.txt");
loadText.onLoad = function(success) {
if (success) {
//trace(success);
newsBox.html = true;
newsBox.htmlText = this.myNews;
}
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I've looked up code that would enable me to randomly scroll .swf's referenced from outside the file, but I've yet to find anything that suggests a way to instead load random movieClip symbols from inside the same .swf. Should I necessarily be using the outside-referenced .swf method? I thought it might be simpler to just use the random symbols which would already be inside the file.

Any ideas/suggestions? Thanks in advance for any help.

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I'm building a reference archive site for a documentary film (you can see a template example at www.seanmurphydesigns.com/endgame_page.html) and I am featuring on the page a scroller bar in which random quotes from the film will scroll through. If you check out the example page, you'll see the bar directly beneath the masthead graphic, there is a static quote sitting in it now.

I've looked up code that would enable me to randomly scroll .swf's referenced from outside the file, but I've yet to find anything that suggests a way to instead load random movieClip symbols from inside the same .swf. Should I necessarily be using the outside-referenced .swf method? I thought it might be simpler to just use the random symbols which would already be inside the file.

P.S. - Sorry about the thread duplication, I tried to correct a spelling error in the title of my first post and ended up posting this thread twice.

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Hello kirupa guru's i really need you help.
I want load text variables to the movieclip inside.
heres the script.

Code:
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_root.contentMc.txtBox.text = "Messages"; \inside movieclip NOT LOADING
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to load an image -

_root.ThePic.loadmovie(imgname);

{ ThePic is a movieclip have an invisible button. Inside the button i have another movieclip within which the image gets loaded)

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hi folks,

I have a movieclip in my library that contains a scrollpane.

I attach this movieclip to the stage using attachMovie.

I then wish to populate this scrollpane with another movieclip in the library.

It seems that I can only get this to work if i delay the request to populate the scrollpane be either using an interval or some delayed event.

It would appear that I need to first be sure that the first attached movie clip is fully loaded before I can populate the scrollpane it contains (i think)

Whats the right way to do this? I don't want to guess when its "ok" to add content to my scrollpane as this may not be the same on every system. It looks like using "onLoad" with an external class as suggested in the Docs would be a solution, but it seems a bit convoluted and I have yet to get it to work properly.

I'm using flash 8 pro.

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hi folks,

I have a movieclip in my library that contains a scrollpane.

I attach this movieclip to the stage using attachMovie.

I then wish to populate this scrollpane with another movieclip in the library.

It seems that I can only get this to work if i delay the request to populate the scrollpane be either using an interval or some delayed event.

It would appear that I need to first be sure that the first attached movie clip is fully loaded before I can populate the scrollpane it contains (i think)

Whats the right way to do this? I don't want to guess when its "ok" to add content to my scrollpane as this may not be the same on every system. It looks like using "onLoad" with an external class as suggested in the Docs would be a solution, but it seems a bit convoluted and I have yet to get it to work properly. (for example, how do you pass to the class constructor a reference to a scrollpane thats contained within the same movieclip thats being attached within the line of code that instantiates said class and its associated movieclip...confused? me to!)

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Problem:
I'm getting this "TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference."
What's happening in the flash file is that I've got a movieclip inside a movieclip and when you roll over one of the movieclips the alpha setting for the movieclip inside the initial movieclip is set to 1, then it transitions out back to 0 over a period of time.

var myTween:Tween = new Tween(event.target.parent.ripple_mc, "alpha", Strong.easeOut, 0, 100, 24, false);

It seems to be random but eventually after rolling over the several movieclips on the stage the error comes up. Sometimes the alpha setting stops working and will continue to be visible even though it should have stopped and be invisible after 24 frames.

Would love some help on this.

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I am a beginner in using Flash and Action Scripting.

This is the Scenerio:

I want to control a movieclip that is inside of another movie clip.
I control it from a button component that is inside of a seperate movie clip.

test = button component instance name
test1 = function
test2 = Movieclip instance name
test3 = Movieclip instance name
testbutton = movieclip name where button component is located

I am able to control a movieclip on the main timeline with the following AS 3.0:

test.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, test1);
function test1(event:MouseEvent):void
{
event.target.root.test2.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

I want to control a movieclip inside MovieClip1.

I tried this:

test.addEventListener (MouseEvent.CLICK, test1);
function test1(event:MouseEvent):void
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}

The movie loaded fine when I tested but got this error when I pressed the button:

TypeError: Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
at Untitled_fla::testbutton_26/test1().

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Code:
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startDrag(this);
};
circle_mc.onRelease = function() {
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};
and that part works fine.

I also want to be able to click on point_mc which is within the circle_mc movie clip. So, I added this:

Code:
circle_mc.point_mc.onRelease = function() {
trace("click was successful");
}
This does not work, and I'm pretty sure it is BECAUSE its parent clip is draggable and therefore has its own onRelease function. (If I comment-out the drag code, then the other code works as intended.)

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Hello Kirupa Cats!

I am building a menu from an XML file, and I'm cool with cyclying thru the xml data to create menu items.

For every menu item in my XML file, I'm using attachMovie to insert a movie clip called menuitem from my library into a movieclip called menuholder. This works no problem, my menuholder movieclip is poplulated with as many menuitem movieclips from the library as designated by the xml data.

However, inside the library movieclip called menuitem, I have another movieclip on its stage, called mc_menuImage. I want to load an image into that movieclip, and I'm taking the URL for the image from the XML data.

My problem is I can't seem to figure out how to fully identify the movieclip mc_menuImage to load the image. It may have something to do with the fact that the library movieclip is being loaded dynamically, but the movieclip inside the library movieclip exisits pysically on the stage. I don't know...here's the code I'm working with:

THE CODE:

var xmlMenu:String = "menu.xml";
menuholder = createEmptyMovieClip("menuholder", -1);

var xmlMenuData:XML = new XML();
xmlMenuData.ignoreWhite = true;
xmlMenuData.load( xmlMenu );
xmlMenuData.onLoad = function(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
var mImage:Array = new Array();
var mRootNode = this.firstChild.childNodes;
totalMenuItems = mRootNode.length;

// fill array
for (var i = 0; i<totalMenuItems; i++) {
mImage.push(mRootNode[i].attributes.menuImage);
}
}

//make the menu
for (var i = 0; i<totalMenuItems; i++) {
var menuitem = menuholder.attachMovie("menuitem", "menu"+i, i);
menuitem.id = i;

/* now here I thought I could just do this: */
menuitem.mc_menuImage.loadMovie(mImage[i]);
/* but that doesn't work... */

};

When I trace menuitem I get this: _level0.menuholder.menu0, _level0.menuholder.menu1, etc, so I figured the syntax menuitem.mc_menuImage would identify the movieclip inside menuitem, but to no avail. Maybe it has something to do with levels, I'm not sure...

So I don't know, any suggestions? Thanks so much!!!

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As title.

Example:
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Hi

Im having a few problems with my events for some movieclips. What I have is an AS2 class which creates a blank movieclip as a holder for submenu movieclips. This blank movieclip must trap its onRollOut event so that it can fade out the menus. The submenu movieclips which are then attached to the holder clip must trap their own mouse events which are defined in another AS2 class. The only trouble is they are not trapped.

I have seen a couple of other posts on the subject but got no clues from them. I was just wondering if what Im trying to do is possible or if Im fighting a loosing battle.

Any help would be much appreciated.
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'canvas' is a large movieclip I am using to put other movieclips 'in' so I can move around and zoom everything at once. Like a coffee table with pictures on it.

I am loading up two images below with variables named map01 and map02. They overlap.

Code:
var map01:MovieClip = canvas.createEmptyMovieClip("map01", canvas.getNextHighestDepth());
map01.loadMovie("http://imagelocation1.jpg");
map01._x=-1000;
map01._y=39;
var map02:MovieClip = canvas.createEmptyMovieClip("map02", canvas.getNextHighestDepth());
map02.loadMovie("http://imagelocation2.jpg");
map02._x=-1000;
map02._y=130;

map01.onRelease = function () {
this.swapDepths(map02);
}
I would like to be able to click one of the images inside canvas and have it jump to the top. In this case, just a simple swap with map02 would be fine, I can manage the depths.

I have put a breakpoint right on the swapdepths line and debugged, and the function never gets called. Probably because it is the onrelease is for 'canvas', not any of the sibling movieclips that flash is looking for.

'canvas' has an onRelease that triggers a stopdrag and a onpress that triggers a startdrag. Removing these two triggers still does not allow any triggers for map01 or map02 to trigger though.

Any suggestions?

Is there some way to setup some logic on a canvas.onRelease function that can easily check to see if the clicked region is on an movieclip inside the canvas?

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Code:
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Code:
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Originally Posted by my shizer code

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ActionScript Code:
function doThisFunction(e:Event) {

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ActionScript Code:
1119: Access of possibly undefined property bg_tag_us through a reference with static type flash.display:DisplayObject.

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Hi,

I have a button who has to attach a movieClip myMc who contains another movieClip box.

I'm trying to assign an onRelease action to the movieClip inside the Attached movieClip, but it doesn't works.

The code:

PHP Code:

myButton.onRelease = function(){    var ref:MovieClip;    ref = container.attachMovie("myMc","newMc",this.getNextHighestDepth());}ref.box.onRelease = function(){    trace("hello world");}

How can i reference to the box movieClip?
By the way, If i try something like this everything works fine:

PHP Code:

var ref:MovieClip;ref = container.attachMovie("myMc","newMc",this.getNextHighestDepth());ref.box.onRelease = function(){    trace("hello world");}

I guess the problem is to attach the movieClip in the button event, but this is what i need.

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Here is the code inside Flavors:

Code:
var flavors:Array;

var thisFlavor:MovieClip;

flavors = [new creamSoda_mc(), new rootBeer_mc, new strawberry_mc, new cherry_mc, new watermelon_mc, new grape_mc, new bubblegum_mc, new butterscotch_mc, new cottonCandy_mc, new raspberry_mc, new sourApple_mc, new chocolate_mc, new mystery_mc];
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Code:
if(flavor.thisFlavor.hitTestObject(tubes.butterscotch_tube))
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if(flavor.thisFlavor == thisFlavor[7])
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butterscotchScore ++;
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}
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