Evil swapDepths

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Hello all,

I’m new to these forums and was going to ask a question as to why the following code did absolutely nothing:


a = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
b = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
ad = a.getDepth();
bd = b.getDepth();
trace("a depth: " + ad);
trace("b depth: " + bd);
b.swapDepths(ad - 1);
ad = a.getDepth();
bd = b.getDepth();
trace("a depth: " + ad);
trace("b depth: " + bd);

If you run this, you’ll notice that swapDepths does absolutely nothing, and prints the following:


a depth: 0
b depth: 1
a depth: 0
b depth: 1

I’d been searching Google for over 3 hours now, reading Adobe’s crappy documentation and tutorials everywhere (that’s what made me register here), but as I was waiting for the account activation mail to arrive, I wondered if perhaps the fact my MovieClips were unnamed was what was causing the problem…

So I gave it a try:


a = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("a", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
b = _root.createEmptyMovieClip("b", _root.getNextHighestDepth());

And what do you know?


a depth: 0
b depth: 1
a depth: 0
b depth: -1

Argh!!! pulls hair out

Well, if this helps anyone else out there trying to figure out why swapDepths is being braindead, then I’m glad I helped. :slight_smile: