ActionScript 3.0 :: New Timeline Instances Not Being Recognized?
Feb 15, 2011
I am pretty familiar with Flash and AS3, but I am having a silly issue that I cant seem to overcome. I have a movie clip in my library thats linked to an external class file. I have a layer in my FLA that has an instance of this movie clip on it. Somewhere down the timeline I have a new keyframe (instance) of this same movie clip on the same layer. I do not have any blank keyframes between the first instance and the second instance.
I have a trace line running in the constructor of the custom class that traces back "init". This trace displays in the output for the first instance, but not the second instance. If I remove the second instance from the layer and put it on its own layer, then the trace displays for both instances.
In other words, flash does not appear to be recognizing the second instance as a new instance when its on the same layer and does not have a blank keyframe between it and the previous instance.
I know putting the blank keyframe in isnt that big of a deal, but this is a movie clip thats going to be used over and over in multiple files by myself and other co-workers and I guarantee you people will forget to put a blank keyframe in or use a new layer.
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