attachMovie & depths

[Ron Colmen]

I wanbt to be able to create buttons inside dNumHolder_mc everytime loadVars return its value (Each time the number of buttons varie). I used removeMovieClip() to remove the current buttons and tried to recreate the next set of buttons. I believe the issue is due to the depths. But with my code the buttons are created once only. How can recreate buttons eachtime btnsRceLoad receives data?

btnsRceLoad.onData = function(src) {

          _root.uusersNow.text = "Total Pages: " + src;

          for(var i:Number=0; i<src; i++){

                    _root.dNumHolder_mc.attachMovie("btnNum","numberBtn"+i,_root.dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth());

                    _root.dNumHolder_mc["numberBtn"+i]._x = xNumPosition;

                    _root.dNumHolder_mc["numberBtn"+i]._y = yNumPosition;

                    _root.dNumHolder_mc.attachMovie("txtNum","textBtn"+i,_root.dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth());

                    _root.dNumHolder_mc["textBtn"+i]._x = xNumPosition;

                    _root.dNumHolder_mc["textBtn"+i]._y = yNumPosition;

                    _root.dNumHolder_mc["textBtn"+i].theNum.text = BtnNumz;

                    xNumPosition = xNumPosition + 24.1;

                    BtnNumz = (BtnNumz + 1);

          }

[kglad]

i don't see where you're removing anything.  but you should use different names and depths:

btnsRceLoad.onData = function(src) {

          _root.uusersNow.text = "Total Pages: " + src;

          for(var i:Number=0; i<src; i++){

                    var mc:MovieClip=_root.dNumHolder_mc.attachMovie("btnNum","numberBtn"+_root.dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth(),_roo t.dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth());

                   mc._x = xNumPosition; // assuming this is initialized

                   mc._y = yNumPosition;  // "   "

                    var mc1:MovieClip=_root.dNumHolder_mc.attachMovie("txtNum","textBtn"+_root.dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth(),_root. dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth());

                   mc1._x = xNumPosition;

                   mc1._y = yNumPosition;

                   mc1.theNum.text = BtnNumz;  // assuming this is initialized

                    xNumPosition = xNumPosition + 24.1;

                    BtnNumz = (BtnNumz + 1);

          }

[Ron Colmen]

Thanks Kglad.

I tried your code and it does the same.

Does var mc:MovieClip need to be a new name eachtime btnsRceLoad is called? But how?

[kglad]

yes.

what do you see that makes you think the code is not working?

[Ron Colmen]

I did the below. But no luck.

var sparkle:Array = [];

var n:Number = 16;

for (var j:Number = 0; j < n; j++) {

var mc:MovieClip = MovieClip(getChildByName("s"+j) );

sparkle = mc;

}

btnsRceLoad.onData = function(src) {

          _root.uusersNow.text = "Total PagesS: " + src;

           for(var i:Number=0; i<src; i++){

                     sparkle=_root.dNumHolder_mc.attachMovie("btnNum","numberBtn"+_root.dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth(),_root.dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth());

                     sparkle._x = xNumPosition;

                    sparkle._y = yNumPosition; 

                     sparkle=_root.dNumHolder_mc.attachMovie("txtNum","textBtn"+_root.dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth(),_root.dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth());

                     sparkle._x = xNumPosition;

                     sparkle._y = yNumPosition;

                     sparkle.theNum.text = BtnNumz; 

                     xNumPosition = xNumPosition + 24.1;

                     BtnNumz = (BtnNumz + 1);

[kglad]

that code makes no sense.  it looks like some as2 and some as3 and none of the as3 would do anything useful.

copy and paste the trace output from the following:

for(var src:Number=5;src<11;src+=5){

testF(src)

}

function testF(src) {

          _root.uusersNow.text = "Total Pages: " + src;

          for(var i:Number=0; i<src; i++){

                    var mc:MovieClip=_root.dNumHolder_mc.attachMovie("btnNum","numberBtn"+_root.dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth(),_roo t.dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth());

                   mc._x = xNumPosition; // assuming this is initialized

                   mc._y = yNumPosition;  // "   "

trace(src+": "+mc+"_x: "+mc._x+" depth: "+mc.getDepth());

                    var mc1:MovieClip=_root.dNumHolder_mc.attachMovie("txtNum","textBtn"+_root.dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth(),_root. dNumHolder_mc.getNextHighestDepth());

                   mc1._x = xNumPosition;

                   mc1._y = yNumPosition;

                   mc1.theNum.text = BtnNumz;  // assuming this is initialized

                    xNumPosition = xNumPosition + 24.1;

                    BtnNumz = (BtnNumz + 1);

          }

[Ron Colmen]

trace:

10: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn28_x: 337.4 depth: 28

[kglad]

you fail to see 15 lines of trace output???

[Ron Colmen]

Sorry about that Kglad.

5: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn0_x: 0 depth: 0

5: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn2_x: 24.1 depth: 2

5: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn4_x: 48.2 depth: 4

5: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn6_x: 72.3 depth: 6

5: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn8_x: 96.4 depth: 8

10: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn10_x: 120.5 depth: 10

10: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn12_x: 144.6 depth: 12

10: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn14_x: 168.7 depth: 14

10: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn16_x: 192.75 depth: 16

10: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn18_x: 216.9 depth: 18

10: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn20_x: 240.95 depth: 20

10: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn22_x: 265.05 depth: 22

10: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn24_x: 289.2 depth: 24

10: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn26_x: 313.3 depth: 26

10: _level0.dNumHolder_mc.numberBtn28_x: 337.4 depth: 28

[kglad]

and do you see 15 movieclips attached to _level0.dNumHolder_mc?

[Ron Colmen]

yes.

[Ron Colmen]

Oops!! I know what's wrong...

I've forgotten to reset x,y to zero!!!!!

Anyway Thanks Kglad!

[kglad]

you're welcome.