# Holy depths issue - Multiple items showing at -77824

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/holy-depths-issue-multiple-items-showing-at-77824/325387
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [October 12, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/holy-depths-issue-multiple-items-showing-at-77824/325387 "2011-10-12T18:55:40Z")
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### Author: ![John\_Bridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f14d63/32.png) [@John\_Bridge](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/John_Bridge)
#### Post date: [October 12, 2011, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/holy-depths-issue-multiple-items-showing-at-77824/325387/1 "2011-10-12T18:55:40Z")

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I am using Adobe Presenter and I am importing an swf with code that tracks all the depths of movie clips in the final published presenter movie (at \_level0) so I can manipulate the built in Presenter objects.

When I publish, my movie returns all the instances as being located on the SAME depth and at a negative depth (-77824). I can not perform a swapDepth on any of these objects to work with them further.

I thought all instances had to be on individual depths and not share a common depth? I also thought (without using createEmptyMovieClip) the lowest depth you would find clips on would be -16383?

The code I am using is:

[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]printStuff = function (object) {  
for (var x in object) {

if (typeof (object[x]) == “movieclip”) {  
tf.text += object[x] + ", WIDTH: " + object[x].\_width + ", HEIGHT: " + object[x].\_height + ", DEPTH: " + object[x].getDepth() + "  
";  
}  
}  
};  
printStuff(\_level0);

…and here is the resulting output.

[/SIZE][/FONT][LEFT][FONT=Arial][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]\_level0.instance4756, WIDTH: 100, HEIGHT: 100, DEPTH: -77824  
\_level0.instance359, WIDTH: 100, HEIGHT: 100, DEPTH: -77824  
\_level0.instance131, WIDTH: 100, HEIGHT: 127, DEPTH: -77824  
\_level0.instance85, WIDTH: 720, HEIGHT: 133, DEPTH: -77824  
\_level0.instance81, WIDTH: 60, HEIGHT: 525, DEPTH: -77824  
\_level0.instance10, WIDTH: 318, HEIGHT: 540, DEPTH: -77824  
\_level0.instance78, WIDTH: 720, HEIGHT: 575, DEPTH: -77824  
\_level0.instance9, WIDTH: 771, HEIGHT: 606, DEPTH: -77824  
\_level0.instance8, WIDTH: 0, HEIGHT: 0, DEPTH: -77824

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[FONT=Arial][SIZE=2]Any insights?  
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