Can anyone explain or help me with stacking order (layers) in AS3

[DonAlmighty]

I am trying to set the depth of the of the movie clip that I created in AS3.

Basically I want the movie clip to be at the bottom of the stacking order. And it keeps appearing on top of my design or items I placed in the timeline


how can I make it so this object or movie clip is at the bottom or if I wanted to bring it to a different level?

[neznein9]

Whenever you use addChild, the object is put on the top of the display list (highest z-index). You can use a couple different methods to manually set the index - also, remember that you have to use an index thats in bounds, you can only set an index to 100 if there are 100 other things on stage.

addChildAt(mc, 0); <= this will add to the back

addChildAt(mc, 10); <= this will add to layer 10 and bump anything already there

setChildIndex(mc, 20); <= this moves mc to index 20, bumping anything else

setChildIndex(mc, this.numChildren - 1); <= bring mc to the top

swapChildren(mc, mc2); <= switches the two

swapChildrenAt(0, 10); <= switches whatever is at 0 with whatever is at 10

[DonAlmighty]

This cleared things up.. thanks. I saved this code.. I am sure I will be using it often now. Thanks again