ActionScript 3.0 :: Removing Text Fields From MovieClip
Nov 30, 2009
I've very new to using Flash with AC3. I've got a small project that reads infomation in from XML files and creates a very two simple menus. The first being the years 2009,2008,2007 etc. (yearMenu_mc). When I click one of these it reads another xml file and builds another menu below (subMenu_mc). This is all working. What I cannot get to work is when I click another year I need it to clear the previous menus text, it just seems to keep over writing and I end up with text that I cannot read anymore. The code I've posted and tried works in one respect it does in fact reset subMenu_mc and I get clear text, but it seems to get rid of the background colour I had set for subMenu_mc.
Code:
import scripts.*;
Variables
var myFont=new fontArial();
var margin:int=2;
var link:String;
var cWhite=0xFFFFFF;
var menuTop:int=-8; /* menu top margin */
var tb:TextField;
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