How to place a movieclip on top of external swf

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June 4, 2011
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Hi there.

I have a main.swf in which i load a xml flash slideshow (.swf).

I want to place a menu which will be shown in front of the slideshow gallery.
I place the menu at an upper layer but the menu appears behind the slideshow.

Can anyone help with this and generally(i.e. in case i want to place something else on top or behind something else)

Thanks in advance

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pantelis224466Author

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And if you want to change depth not with a movieclip(like the menu) but with another swf which loads by the same way as the first ?

I create to the next frame a new container to load my new swf . The new container is called myGalleryContainerhtmltext and i want to swap depths between this swf and the previous swf i loaded at myGalleryContainer. I tried this:

myGalleryContainer.swapDepths(myGalleryContainerhtmltext);

but nothing happens

Any ideaS?

My mistake:

i used

this.createEmptyMovieClip("myGalleryContainerhtmltext",1);

and i replaced it with this:

this.createEmptyMovieClip("myGalleryContainerhtmltext",2);

and its wokring fine!

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pantelis224466Author

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I load the swf file with this code:

var loader:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
this.createEmptyMovieClip("myGalleryContainer",1);
myGalleryContainer._lockroot=true;
loader.loadClip("Myslideshow.swf",myGalleryContainer);

and i use this code at a layer below the menu layer but still the slideshow appears in front of the menu,

I searched for the swapDepths() function but i read that i can use it with a trigger effect (like on(release) or on(rollover) )

Which is the right syntax of this function to operate correctly without pushing a button or something else

Is there a way that i can see the depths of the movie clips at my .fla and change the depths as i like?

Ned Murphy

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If you were to replace that dynamically created empty movieclip with a manually created one placed in the timeline that would take care of the first suggestion I offered.

As for the the swapDepths usage and what you showed, you should be able to use something to the effect of... myGalleryContainer.swapDepths(myMenu);

If you want to see what depth am object resides at, you can use the getDepth() metod, as in... myMenu.getDepth();

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pantelis224466Author

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Thank you it really worked!

Ned Murphy

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One way would be to load the external swf into an empty movieclip that you manually place on a layer below the menu layer. When you dynamically load content, it doesn't have a home in the timeline unless you anchor it into something that does.

Another more generalized approach would be to switch the depths of different objects using the swapDepths() method