attachMovie and retrieving variables within MovieClip

[mcascio]

Hi All,

I'm having a slight problem I'm hoping someone has the answer to.

In one frame I'm attaching a MovieClip to the stage:
_root.attachMovie("Button0004", "newbutton",525);
trace("textfieldx is equal to "+_root.newbutton.textfieldx);


The trace doesn't return a value for _root.newbutton.textfieldx

But when I put the trace on a button and press it afterwards, it returns the correct value.

textfieldx is defined within the MovieClip "Button0004". I would think I would be able to access the value textfieldx as soon as I attach the movie.

Any thoughts on why it's not working directly after the movie is attached?

Thanks much.

[StunnedGrowth]

did you try using .text?

trace("textfieldx is equal to "+_root.newbutton.textfieldx.text);

which is basically saying:
trace("textfieldx is equal to "+_root.movieclip.textfieldInstance.value);

[mcascio]

StunnedGrowth,
Thanks for the idea, but that doesn't seem to work.

If it helps, in the MovieClip I'm attaching, the first frame contains:
textfieldx = "4";

Which is the value I'm trying to retrieve.

[mcascio]

Anyone else have any ideas why I can't retrieve the value in the attached movieclip?

I've been struggling with this one for over 10 hours now.

[mcascio]

OK,

After putting a trace in the attached MovieClip, I'm noticing that the MovieClip is getting attached after the trace on the root level.

To make it more clear - on a button I placed the following script:
on (release) {
_root.attachMovie("ButtonTest", "newbutton",528);
trace("textfieldx is equal to "+_level0.newbutton.textfieldx);
}

Then in the MovieClip "ButtonTest" I also placed a trace in the first frame:
trace("ButtonTest textfieldx = "+textfieldx + " " + this);

The trace in the attached MovieClip appears after the trace on the button I'm pressing.

That's why the variable doesn't contain any values.

So now the question is how can I work around this?

[StunnedGrowth]

I got to thinking about this, and you cannot target dynamic textfields inside button symbols. Now, there is a work around, which involves a little leg work. Basically you need to seperate the textfield from the button. I made a fla to show you how I got around it. I'm sure there are other ways of approaching this, but this is how I do it.

I only put in url's for 3 buttons if you test this and change the number of buttons built, but you could add more if you wanted to.

[Malinali]

Thanx a lot StunnedGrowth!!!
You've saved me a few hours of knocking my head against my keyboard