ActionScript 3.0 :: Creating Stackable MovieClips - Parent / Child Relationship?
Aug 17, 2009
I am creating a pile of stackable movieclips. The dragging function is not a prob but I have a problem with the parent/child relationship in the "bringtotop" function.
Code:
package {
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Graphics;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.events.MouseEvent;
public class Colorbox extends MovieClip {
[Code] .....
The error generated is :
RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds.
at flash.display:isplayObjectContainer/setChildIndex()
at Colorbox/bringtotop()
but i don't understand what it means...
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