ActionScript 3.0 :: Accessing MC Children By Name On Loaded SWF
Jul 14, 2010
Im loading SWFs into my AS3 application. My SWFS are all the same and contain this structure:
root
-item
--color
--overlay
When i load up a SWF file into AS3, This is analogous to the root. So i can say:
[Code]....
I have tried everything i can think of to access this second depth by instance name. Whats wierd is that MovieClip(loadedSWF.item).numChildren returns 2. So Flash knows that theres 2 MovieClips inside of item.... But it just cant reference them by instance name. Since loadedSWF.item works, i assumed that loadedSwf.item.color would work too.
EDIT: I seem to be able to access the MC via getChildAtIndex(0); However this isnt ideal because it create a rule for the designer that he must follow a layering order. Id prefer to do it by name.
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