ActionScript 3.0 :: Placing Elements Into A Dynamically Created MovieClip?
Jun 24, 2010
I am trying to create a navigation element. The items in the navigation are created dynamically from data in an XML file. What I would like to do is create a new movie clip then place all of the navigation elements into that movie clip so I can move it around as one piece.
Here is a simplified example of my code:
Code:
var navContainer:MovieClip = new MovieClip(); //clip to add elements to
addChild(navContainer);
//Create nav elements that I want inside navContainer//
[Code]....
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Does one normally use some sort of wrapper object to do so?
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