Any help with the UI?

[harmonixmedia]

Hope this makes sense. I’m playing with the draggable pane in the second UI group. I just want to have three buttons that “pop” up different panes with different content in each. You have to “attachMovie” to do this. You also have to make the name and depth of you new pain…I mean pane dynamically created. This way if the user selects the same button twice your program doesn’t freak out. This has all worked fine using action script, except for one thing. To put the content in the pane you need to call a method named .setScrollContent. For some reason the name of object that you send the method to can’t be a variable.

Here’s the code:
on (release) {
_root.nextl++;
_root.attachMovie("FDraggablePaneSymbol", "pano"+_root.nextl, _root.nextl);
setProperty("_root.pano"+_root.nextl, _x, "468");
setProperty("_root.pano"+_root.nextl, _y, "70");
“_root.pano”+_root.nextl.setScrollContent("tes ting");
}

Everything works but putting in the content.
Any help out there on why and what I can do

[sonwah]

with a slight adjustment it should work:

on (release) { 
    _root.nextl++; 
    _root.attachMovie("FDraggablePaneSymbol", "pano"+_root.nextl, _root.nextl); 
    _root["pano"+_root.nextl]._x = 468; 
    _root["pano"+_root.nextl]._y = 70; 
    _root["pano"+_root.nextl].setScrollContent("testing"); 
}

[harmonixmedia]

Thanks, works like a charm.
You're freaking awsome!

Gotta say this is the best board out there!

[sonwah]

no worries.
as a side note, out of interest,
the reason I wrote it the way above, rather than using "with" like this:

on (release) { 
    _root.nextl++; 
    _root.attachMovie("FDraggablePaneSymbol", "pano"+_root.nextl, _root.nextl);
    with (_root["pano"+_root.nextl]) {
        _x = 468; 
        _y = 70; 
        setScrollContent("testing");
    }
}

is because of a problem I have had in getting certain methods to work within a "with" handler. From my experience, the above would work when setting the X and Y, but not for the setScrollContent().
It might be that it does work, I haven't tested the setScrollContent() to see whether or not it does.
I must add that I haven't done any testing or documenting what will work and what won't, and most of this is based on Flash 5 stuff I did last year (should be the same behaviour in Flash MX though).
I have just found that certain method calls just don't happen when placed within a "with" handler.
I have found myself on quite a few occasions setting numerous properties and variables using a "with", closing the braces, and right below it having to code in the full target to call a method.
Seems crazy.
Be interested to know if anyone else has duplicated this behaviour??