dynamically attached overlapping buttons & depth

[lostinas]

Hi, hope i can get some help on this i've been trying for ages with many different styles of code and not found the perfect answer yet.

I have a map where people can add cities to, the values for each city is stored in a db. each city is represented by a red dot on the map and on a roll over event it displays a text label of the city name. The cities are all attached dynamically. This is all working fine. Currently I am using a swapdepths(10000000) method on the rollover for each button which is working fine on the first view the page, however upon adding a new city some of the cities are very close to each other (eg New York, Boston, Philly) and on the rollover some citiy labels are displaying above or blow the other city dots near them.

Difficult to explain - much easier to understand visually. url below
http://www.joeshields.net/flashlab/cityviewmax/

Any help would be appreciated.

thanks

[nunomira]

hi,

If your problem has to do with the depths - and you want to guaratee that the next movie clip appears on top of the previous:
1- in MX 2004 or later, you can use getNextHighestDepth().

code:

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some_mc.swapDepths(this.getNextHighestDepth());

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2 - In previous versions, you keep record of depths:

code:

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var depth = 1;

some_mc.swapDepths(++depth);

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I'm moving this thread to the ActionScript forum as it seems to belong.

[lostinas]

thanks that put me on the right path, i was actually adding my dynamic mc's inside another movie so I set it to swapDepths(containerMC.GetNextHighestDepth()).

Cheers