Here here! Another negative vote for getNextHighestDepth(). The _root.removeMovieClip() gotcha when using v2 components wasted several hours of my time when first learning AS2.0 ... why the he!! can't I remove those clips!
I use a custom class to assign depth just to spite Flash. /------------------------------ | Bryan Thompson | Cyberian Tiger Multimedia \------------------------------ > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ryanm > Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 12:35 PM > To: Flashcoders mailing list > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] How do you code your Flash applications? > > > No, but what Ryan describes is exactly what > getNextHighestDepth() is for. > > > Not at all. If you have a content container at 1, a > navigation container at 2 (so that drop downs lay on top of > the content), and a footer container at 3, and you need to > add another content container (for rotating ads or > something), you want it to be next to the other content in > depth so that it's under the navigation. I avoid > getNextHighestDepth like the plague, it is an evil monkey > living in your closet that wants to kill you. Or at least be > a major pain in the ass while you try to figure out why you > can't control the z-position of your elements. I don't even > use it in loops when I'm generating a bunch of movie clips, > like rows in a select box or something, I use the iterator > for the loop, that way their depth and their index in the > array is always the same. The only time I've ever used > getNextHighestDepth was in one-off projects where I didn't > know or care where the elements ended up because they were > created and forgotten. Anything that might have to be > referenced or moved later should probably have its depth set > explicitly. > > ryanm > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
