ActionScript 3.0 :: Calling On Children Through A Loop And Using E.currentTarget
Aug 25, 2010
I have a number of MC's that I've assigned listeners to through a loop that references an xml table.
//create listeners for all biketrails mc's and designate functionsfunction createListenersbk():void{for(var i:uint=0;i<bktrlXml.row.length();i++){var mc:MovieClip =
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I thought I'd be able to replicate the above code and somehow refernce the "idlink" children through the e.curentTarget.
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