Thanks for you fast response. Your suggestion works but it is not what I'm looking for. I'm sorry I guess I didn't explain well.
So here I come again: Taking into account my previous example (the one with a Canvas and multiple Circles positioned randomly)...I need to hide all those Circles that are totally overlapped by other Circles. Could someone help me with this? --- In [email protected], Lushen Wu <l...@...> wrote: > > huhgawz, > > I think most UIComponents subclass DisplayObjectContainer, which has a > method > > getChildIndex <#getChildIndex%28%29>(child:DisplayObject > <../../flash/display/DisplayObject.html>):int <../../int.html> > > so call this to find the child index (basically z-order) of the > lowest-ordered circle you want to have visible, > > then iterate all the Children underneath that index using the property > numChildren and method getChildAt <#getChildAt%28%29>(index:int > <../../int.html>):DisplayObject <../../flash/display/DisplayObject.html> > and set them visible=false > > ref: > http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/display/DisplayObjectContainer.html > > > Hope that helps.. > > Lushen > > > On 12/24/2008 12:50 PM, huhgawz wrote: > > > > Let's say you have a /Canvas/ in which you create multiple instances > > of a /Circle/ randomly positioned. Then you want to know which > > /Circles/ are underneath the top most /Circle/ (talking in /z-order/ > > terms) in order to hide them all. > > > > Could you share an example of this? > > > > I would really appreciate any guidance.... > > > > >
