Swap Depths of Target Loaded Movie Clips

[dprovidenti webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

Can anyone help?

I'm using buttons to load external draggable mc's into the movie where the buttons are located. I'm trying to swapDepths of these mc's with no luck. I've tried coding the external mc's root timeline, the mc's themselves, I even tried making the mc's buttons and coding them, and nothing.

If the movies aren't loaded, everything works fine. Swapping depths is relatively easy to do... but for some reason I can't get it to work on target loaded mc's.

I could easily load these movies onto levels, but this causes printing issues.

Anyone have a solution?

Thanks

[kglad webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

there shouldn't be any problem unless you have a coding error or are trying to do something before your movies load that require you to wait until loading has completed.

[dprovidenti webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

thanks for the reply but...


here's the code I've tried on the clip itself -- doesn't work when it's loaded into a target

on (press) {
startDrag(this);
this.swapDepths(2);
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();
}


then I tried this on the first frame of the clip's timeline --- doesn't work either if the mc is loaded:



red.onPress = function() {
startDrag(this, true);
this.swapDepths(2);
};
red.onRelease = function() {
stopDrag();

};
blue.onPress = function() {
startDrag(this, true);
this.swapDepths(2);
};
blue.onRelease = function() {
stopDrag();

};

[dprovidenti webforumsuser@macromedia.com]

this code has to be attached to the "target" mc where you're loading into
the loading mc doesn't have to have it anywhere

on (press) {
startDrag(this);
this.swapDepths(2);
}
on (release) {
stopDrag();
}