Level Order

[Sam]

Is it possible to change level order?

I have a parent movie with 4 other movies that load in and I would like to be able to switch their level orders, for example, switch level 5 with 1.

I appreciate any help!

[Voetsjoeba]

I don't know about levels, but you can swap depths of movieclips using movieclip.swapDepths(target) or movieclip.swapDepths(depth), which pretty much does what you want :)

[Sam]

Voetsjoeba ... thanx for the response, but I really need to know if there is a way to swap levels....can't find any info on it.

Does anyone know if you can swap levels? And how?

Thanx for your help!

[Yeldarb]

what exactly is a level? i think ur talking about depth which is what voetsjoeba posted

[Digitalosophy]

i dont believe you can swap levels, but you shouldn't have to, you can unload the levels when they are not being used or just load another swf over that level

[lostinbeta]

Uhhh... swapDepths(level)... swapping depths is swapping levels ;)

[Digitalosophy]

lol yes that is true

[lostinbeta]

To elaborate...

swapDepths() is a function that allows you to swap depths with either another movie clip, or to a set level.

targetClip.swapDepths(targetClipToSwapWith) will swap depths with another clip

targetClip.swapDepths(10000) will swap the depth of the targetClip and place it at level 10000 (which can be targeted at _level10000)

[Sam]

I'm talking about swapping depths of levels, movies I've loaded into different levels. I need to keep the levels loaded, just switch the depth of them.

Say I have 3 movie clips, the parent.swf, ABC.swf, and DEF.swf.

I have a button that loads ABC.swf into level 1 over parent.swf.

I have another button that loads DEF.swf into level 2 over ABC.swf and parent.swf.

I want to keep both movies loaded just switch their level depths on button release.

I'm still learning Flash...
Would I just put "targetClip.swapDepths(DEF.swf)" code after the }on release code in ABC.swf movie?

You all rock! Thanx for the help!