ActionScript 2.0 :: Targeting Dynamically Generated Clips?
Jul 27, 2008
I'm trying to make a flash widget that loads thumbnails from an xml document and have each thumbnail link to a different web page. So far everything works fine but I don't like using _root incase the widget gets loaded into another swf. In my expereice _lockroot dosen't always work.the line highlieted in red will only work if targeted through root as opposed to all my othere reference to ["placeHolder"+i] which use this.["placeHolder"+i]. I've tried _parent, this._parent and adding lots of other _parents. Nothing will work this is the file structure _root.placeHolder'N'.tn_mc. how I can substitute _root for a relative path.
widget_xml = new XML();
widget_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
widget_xml.load('flashWidget.xml');//path to document
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Right check this:
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///////////////FUSE//////////////////
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begins fill
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