You can't re-parent MovieClips in AS2. You could make your class control
arbitrary MovieClips as if they were reparented with a lot of math and
localToGlobal() calls, though. Probably not a great idea, though.
On 8/23/07, Alexander Farber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> I've found a nice code (pasted at the bottom of
> this mail) to display a rotating set of movieclips.
>
> One problem with it is though that it assumes
> a hardcoded set of 7 movieclips in the library,
> called "0", "1", ... "6" and attaches them to the
> stage by calling attachMovie(i, "mc"+i, i);
>
> I'd like to change that to a MovieClip-based class
> which would take an arbitary array of MovieClips
> and attach them to itself:
>
> class Ellipse extends MovieClip {
> private var mcs:Array = [];
> ...
> public function setMovieClips(mcs:Array) {
> this.mcs = mcs;
>
> for (var i:Number = 0; i < mcs.length; i++) {
> var mc:MovieClip = mcs[i];
> // XXX this.attachMovie(i, "mc"+i, i);
>
> And here comes the problem - how do I attach
> MovieClips (referred by "mc" above) to the Ellipse?
>
> There are only 2 methods - attachMovie() and
> duplicateMovieClip() - and they both need a linkage
> name as the argument.
>
> I.e. my general question is: how do I remove
> a child-MovieClip from one parent-MovieClip
> and assign it to another parent-MovieClip?
>
> Regards
> Alex
>
> PS: Here is the original code
>
> var N:Number = 7;
> var A:Number = 150;
> var B:Number = 50;
> var X:Number = 200;
> var Y:Number = 150;
> var GR:Number = Math.PI / 180;
>
> for (var i:Number = 0; i < N; i++) {
> attachMovie(i, "mc"+i, i);
> this["mc"+i].alpha = 0+i*(360/N);
> this["mc"+i].onEnterFrame = function() {
> this.alpha += (_root._xmouse - X) / 100;
>
> this._x = X + A * Math.cos(this.alpha * GR);
> this._y = this._xscale = this._yscale =
> Y + B * Math.sin(this.alpha * GR);
>
> this.swapDepths(this._y);
> };
> }
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