# All objects at depth of -16384?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/all-objects-at-depth-of-16384/185542
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 14, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/all-objects-at-depth-of-16384/185542 "2006-04-14T01:57:54Z")
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### Author: ![endy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f19dbf/32.png) [@endy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/endy)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 1:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/all-objects-at-depth-of-16384/185542/1 "2006-04-14T01:57:54Z")

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for some reason all the objects in my movie seem to be at the depth -16384 and when I try to swap one lower it does not work… any ideas on what is going on here?

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### Author: ![williby27](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/williby27/32/1501_2.png) [@williby27](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/williby27)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 3:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/all-objects-at-depth-of-16384/185542/2 "2006-04-14T03:52:21Z")

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have you heeard of the code

nameofyourobject.getNextHighestDepth();

that would be a better way to swap the depths, instead of using numbers

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### Author: ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2006, 4:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/all-objects-at-depth-of-16384/185542/3 "2006-04-14T04:55:19Z")

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First, they can’tall be at the same depth since at most only one movie clip can occupy any given depth.

Second, -16384 is the lowest depth.

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/depths2.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/depths2.htm)

:p: