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bbdouglas
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August 26, 2013
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Movie clip stacking - always on top?

  • August 26, 2013
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I have a Flash file I'm trying to figure out an issue with. Basically, it starts off with the first frame firing an animation movie clip called Animation. When that animation completes, the next frame runs video that is played using another movie clip called Movie1. When the movie completes, the next frame runs an animation movie clip called Animation02.

At the bottom of the screen in our "footer" I have a button that launches a movie clip called TextBox1. The clip is a draggable box that contains a dynamic text field with scrollbar, and a button inside of it that closes (hides) the box. The text in the box is the actual script that the user hears being read throughout the animation/video/animation sequence in the Flash file. Captions, essentially.

If a person clicks to launch the captions during the first Animation clip, all is well. But when the Movie1 clip is triggered by the first animation ending, Movie1 appears on top of the already-launched TextBox1 caption box (which is normal behavior, as I understand it, with each new clip automatically being on top). I know my caption box is still shown on the stage, it's just covered up. I can click the caption button to turn it off and relaunch it and it will be on top again as intended, but of course, when Animation02 is triggered by the end of Movie1, the Animation02 clip is on top of the text box again.....and again, I can can turn off captions and relaunch the clip to get it back on top.

What I want to do is have the TextBox1 caption box be persistent in its index so it's always on the topmost layer.  Any help on making this always stay on top any time a clip is added?

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Correct answer Ned Murphy

Since you are describing a timeline design, you should be able to place the textfield on a timeline layer that sits above any others. 

If you are dynamically adding content then you might need to bump the textfield movie to the top by using an addChild(textmoviename) command following anytime you load some other movie.

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Ned Murphy
Ned MurphyCorrect answer
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August 26, 2013

Since you are describing a timeline design, you should be able to place the textfield on a timeline layer that sits above any others. 

If you are dynamically adding content then you might need to bump the textfield movie to the top by using an addChild(textmoviename) command following anytime you load some other movie.

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bbdouglasAuthor
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August 26, 2013

Thanks! Works like a champ. I always assumed when you used addChild that it was adding yet another instance of the same thing, so I had avoided that as to not bog things down. We don't have anyone on our team who is a heavily experienced AS3 coder, so we're all knocking the rust off right now. We're going through and simplifying the code we wrote earlier in the year that, due to time constraints, was a bit sloppier than we'd like, even though it still functioned as it was supposed to.

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