Changing movie clips depth

[Newsgroup_User]

Hi,

I'm building a rotating menu and need to change the depth of the button
movie clips at the time they pass the top to creat a 3D effect. how can I
change the depth of a specific movie clip using action scripting?

[DazFaz]

MovieClip.prototype.changeDepth = function() {
var highestDepth = 0;
for (var i in this._parent) {
highestDepth = (eval(i).getDepth()>highestDepth) ? eval(i).getDepth() : highestDepth;
}
this.swapDepths(highestDepth);
};
myMovieClip = "menu"// this being the name of your menue system
for (var i in myMovieClip) {
if (typeof (eval(i)) == "movieclip") {
eval(i).onRollOver = function() {
this.changeDepth();
};
}
}
// what this will do is loop through ever movieClip within your menu and apply the "onRollOver" function to each movieClip within.

[AnandMX]

even on rollOver
this.swapDepth(this._parent.getNextHighestDepth())
🙂

[DazFaz]

ah "getNextHighestDepth()" function, theres a bug in using this in Flash Pro 8 Im afraid. Thats why Ive suggested using the above.

[AnandMX]

hey whats that bug, i m not aware, kindly share the info if u know

[DazFaz]

Depth Bug:
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_19435

[Newsgroup_User]

Okay, correct me if I'm wrong. In this way the depth keeps increasing and
will finally reach the limit (if there's any) causing erratic behaviour in
the movie clip. I just need to swap two depths of two different movie clips.
I need to create a kind of card shuffle like motion.



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> MovieClip.prototype.changeDepth = function() {
> var highestDepth = 0;
> for (var i in this._parent) {
> highestDepth = (eval(i).getDepth()>highestDepth) ? eval(i).getDepth() :
> highestDepth;
> }
> this.swapDepths(highestDepth);
> };
> myMovieClip = "menu"// this being the name of your menue system
> for (var i in myMovieClip) {
> if (typeof (eval(i)) == "movieclip") {
> eval(i).onRollOver = function() {
> this.changeDepth();
> };
> }
> }
> // what this will do is loop through ever movieClip within your menu and
> apply
> the "onRollOver" function to each movieClip within.
>

[DazFaz]

Heres a good example of understanding depths:

http://www.kirupa.com/developer/isometric/depth_sorting.htm