Level and depth

Hi All,
Please explain me the difference between levels and depth in flash

regards,
silverhawk

I think the easiest way to think of levels in Flash is similar to thinking of them as layers.

In your movie, you have layers built up of symbols, where you can place things on top of one layer, but the layer underneath is still there.

The same idea applies to levels, only instead of symbols, each level contains movie clips. If you load one movie onto level 0, then another onto level 1, the second movie displays over the first one, but the first one is still there.

Does that help at all?

They’re more or less the same, but levels contain depths.

Within _level0 for instance, you have a bit more than 1 million depths, and for instance a clip that has a depth of 500 will be under a clip at depth 1000.

Now if you have a _level10, the clips contained in that level will be on top of all the clips contained inside _level0, whatever the depth.

You can see levels as big layers container a multitude of small layers (depths).

pom :phil: