ActionScript 2.0 :: Dynamically Loading MovieClip On Top Of Other (Popup)
Aug 30, 2008
I have a main MC, on which I have a button which dynamically loads another MC on top (like a popup). On this popup, I have a close button, which works. On the popup, I have another button which dynamically loads another MC on top of popup #1. I cannot get the close button on popup #2 to close just that popup, it either does not work at all, or closes both #1 & #2 at the same time. I know it has to do with hierarchy, but just cannot grasp this method.
Attached is the code & files.
Code:
//pop1 MC
//load mcPop2 on top of pop1 and main
var parent:MovieClip = this;
btnPop2.onRelease = function (){
[Code] .....
Files: [URL]
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This movieclip - movieclipB duplicates for each item. This works perfect. I also have another movieclip movieclipC The movieclipB is a slideshow and loads the 5 images for an item by a self generated xml file that a php functions produces, depending on the querystring that is the idstring in my actionscript. I mean that inside the movieclipB I do
So far the movieclipB works very well standalone...and this means that if I assign the querystring value inside the movieclip (for example idstring=1 and then call the function as above, the slideshow works verywell. How to pass for each item a different idstring into movieclipB and where exactly to put the movieclipB so it can be duplicated with movieclipA and take the correct idstring to do its job. Everything I tried to pass the idstring failed.
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_root.mySlider."+stripX2(band[i][0])+i
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[URL]
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Quote:
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[Code]...
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