duplicateMovieclip issues...

**Flashh_n00b** · February 10th, 2006, 04:13 PM

ok...what i am trying to do is duplicate a movie clip a couple of times. I have got it so that part works, but the duplicates always come up in front the border/background(see file), but i want them to be behind it. One thing is, that the original MC always seems to go on the right depth. Any help would be appreciated

http://www.filefactory.com/get/f.php...e0438797a7c2d1

thanx in advance

**bombsledder** · February 10th, 2006, 07:12 PM

you need to use swapDepths, the easiest way i can think of but uses more cpu usage is to use the

background.swapDepths(getNextHighestDepth())

or better yet you could do an if statement

Code:

if(getNextHighestDepth()-1!=background.getDepth()){
background.swapDepths(getNextHighestDepth())
}

not sure of the getDepth() and swapDepths(), if that is there correct names just go in the help files and look

cheers

**Flashh_n00b** · February 11th, 2006, 12:41 PM

i'll try that and see if i can get it to do anything

**Flashh_n00b** · February 11th, 2006, 12:44 PM

this code doesn't seem to do anything at all, it just comes out the exact same as b4. I tried every wayi could think of to fix it but since im not very familiar with swapDepths i wasn't sure what was wrong...

**bombsledder** · February 11th, 2006, 01:03 PM

ok in the line of as that you duplicate the movie clip

After:

_root.duplicateMovieClip(//blah,//blah,//blah)

Add:
if(getNextHighestDepth()-1!=background.getDepth()){
background.swapDepths(getNextHighestDepth())
}

like i said before though im not sure if the functions are spelled right so check the help folder, but this should do the trick