Help with moving depth of "myself" upwards

[reedy2k]

A/S 2

Hi all,
I am hoping to get some code for making this work...

Basically I have a bunch of movie clips on the main timeline which all act as buttons (all uniquely named)

Inside these movie clips is a button symbol with the actions on it to control the buttons behaviour.

The movie clips overlap each other on the stage, so I want to put in some code (preferably the same code in each clip) to say "when you rollover me, move me upwards in depth so I am at the top)

Then obviously if I rollover another button next to this one, then the same would happen, only higher.

getNextHighestDepth seems to be the way to go, but I cant seem to get the paths right, I guess I am targetting "larent"?

Any help would be much appreciated

Thanks alot

[Nig 13]

post for the roll over part

if on frame:

mc.onRollOver = function(){
    this.swapDepths(getNextHighestDepth());
}

if directly on Movieclip:

on(rollOver){
    this.swapDepths(getNextHighestDepth());
}

if on frame inside Movieclip:

this.onRollOver = function(){
    this.swapDepths(this._parent.getNextHighestDepth());
    // or if this is on the _root frame, _root.getNextHighestDepth()
}

Hope one of those works

[reedy2k]

Thanks for the suggestion. Some of these work, but have a knock-on effect...

Once I have rolled over the button once and had its depth changed, it is then unable to be targetted with the following code in another part of the movie:

_root.btn_blue._visible = 0;

Would the depth change mess with the targeting like this? Seems odd to me.

Removing all the depth swapping code makes these visibility settings work again. Any ideas?

[Nig 13]

Shouldn't be a problem, wanna post your FLA file?