createEmptyMovieClip always below other layers?

[Carl Fink webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

I'm using createEmptyMovieClip() to make, well, an empty MovieClip, in which I then draw a TextField using createTextField().

The trouble is, even though I tell the routine to put the empty MovieClip on layer 9999, the TextField appears *behind* items on layer 10. Is this expected behavior? Any workarounds?

I did do some web searching and found no other mention of this problem.

Here's the code in question:

if (this.tipText.length > 0) {
this.createEmptyMovieClip("the_tip_MC", 9999);
with (this.the_tip_MC) {
var clipBounds = getBounds(_root.invisoBackground);
createTextField("tipText", 9999, 10, 20, 100, 20);
tipText.border = true;
tipText.autosize = "left";
tipText.backgroundColor = 0xFFFFCC;
tipText.background = true;
tipText.text = this.tipText;
myFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.font="_sans";
tipText.setTextFormat(myFormat);
}
}


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Carl Fink
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[PierreAlain]

as far as I experienced, the created movie clip is ABOVE all clips --in the
level it is created--. If you want it easy, create a swf witch will be
loaded level 9999 where you put your code to create the EmptyMovieClip

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Pierre Alain

[email]pie@lifnet.com[/email]