ActionScript 3.0 :: Using The Time Line And The DisplayList - DL Keeps Duplicating Stuff
May 7, 2010
Iv'e been slowly moving over to AS3 in the past few months and I think I have learnt quite a considerable amout. However I am completly dumbstruck by the behaviour of the DisplayList. The kind of work I do requuires that the flash movies I make are timeline based (I know spitting in the face of OOP) because of the amount of animation used. However within these animations I also use snippets of ActionScript to have interactive moments such as drag and drops or tabs for the user to select a section. Now in these cases I as you would expect have to redepth some stuff (like the currently active panel of some tabs or currently active drag item etc). Using the display list I think is dead easy and I actually prefer it to the old Depth based system of ActionScript 2. This is where the odd problem starts.
On my stage I have 2 insences of the same MovieClip ("Clock1" and "Clock2") which has a child named "hand", also I have 2 text boxes just to dictate which movie is which. These clips and text are nothing special just author created in flash so no code involved for adding them to the display list.
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