Flash :: Get The Object Colliding?
Jan 21, 2011
Is there a way to know which object an object is colliding with?... I want to create a 'box object' in flash that can identify any other object(Movieclips) that collides with it. For example, if I drop the box on the 'field' (engine or world), and i put anything inside it, I would like the box to tell me what kind of object it is colliding with. I can't use hitTestObject because I don't know which object the box will collide with in advance.
A rough pesudocode to what I want to achieve is as follows:
if ( Movieclip(parent). UNKNOWN_OBJECT .hitTestObject(this) )
trace(UNKNOWN_OBJECT.name);
UNKNOWN_OBJECT in the above example doesn't necessarily have the same data type.
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