Comments on: How to Swap Depth using AS3 via setChildIndex

By: dinesh

dinesh — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:52:59 +0000

its not working….

By: relationssidan är relativt färdig | Berättelser från Yngsjö

relationssidan är relativt färdig | Berättelser från Yngsjö — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 23:04:12 +0000

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By: derek

derek — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:49:28 +0000

didnt seem to work for me. i altered it to correct the problem:
/////////
// loop through to create three mc’s on stage
for (var i:int = 0; i <3; i++) {
var myColor:ColorTransform = new ColorTransform();
myColor.color = (Math.random() * 0xFFFFFF);
var mc:MovieClip = new MyMC();
mc.x = ((i * 80) );
mc.y = 100+ (i*10);
mc.id = i;
mc.name = "b"+i;
mc.transform.colorTransform = myColor;
mc.buttonMode = true;
mc.addEventListener (MouseEvent.MOUSE_OVER, swapDepths);
holder_mc.addChild (mc);
}

function swapDepths (e:MouseEvent):void {
trace (e.target.id);
var mc:MovieClip;
mc = (e.target.parent as MovieClip);
trace (mc.id);
holder_mc.setChildIndex (holder_mc.getChildByName("b"+e.target.id), (holder_mc.numChildren – 1));
}

By: greg

greg — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 12:51:52 +0000

I’m trying to enter a depth but I get this error:
RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/setChildIndex()
at soundSpectrum_fla::MainTimeline/onLoaded()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()
at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()
at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()

By: Mattis

Mattis — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:50:37 +0000

Thanks for this, helped me with my nested movieclips sorting problem.

By: Enzo

Enzo — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:16:49 +0000

Thanks I always get confused at livedocs.