ActionScript 3.0 :: Accessing Nested Movieclips?
Dec 5, 2009
I have a movie clip (assigned to a class) with several keyframes. Each keyframe consists of another movieclip, which contains an animation and all use the same name. Lastly, several of the animations contain a third movieclip, which is also assigned to a class and also use the same name. I need the first movieclip to speak to the third, unfortunately, it simultaneously tells me that the clips in the second layer (the ones at the keyframes) exist and do not exist. Namely: second layer "does not exist" in that the primary movieclip has only one child: a null. If I add other movieclips to the primary's frames, they also report back as nulls depending on what frame I'm on. I've tested this in several parts of the code, though I suppose it's possible that I managed to pick five equally bad spots. It's just so bizarre I still don't know what to think about it. However, the second layer of named clips are there, but I can only prove it by deliberately breaking the code in hopes of deliberately getting a reference error (by attempting to make the clip private, which isn't allowed given my setup).
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This does not work. Infact, I cannot access any specific "component" properties - they come back undefined. I cannot added event handlers for the component events either.
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