Managing Layers & using variables... help!

[James Flood]

Hello!

I want to swap the depths of some movieclips that are inside another movieclip in AS3, as you could do in AS2. I've found out how to do that:

In this instance:

the overall movieclip 'container' is called: layers_mc

three movieclips on different layers within that are called:

- bio_mc_content
- current_mc_content
- news_mc_content

when I click on different movieclips (which act as buttons I suppose), on the main stage and outside of the "layers_mc", I want the corresponding movieclip in the "layers_mc" to rise to the top of the pile and therefore be the visible one.

the respective names of these "button" movieclips are

- bio_mc
- current_mc
- news_mc

I've managed to make this work if I specify the exact name of the layers_mc.movieclip I want shifting to the top, but I want to get my code to be more re-usable, so I can do this all in one function.

Hopefully if you at the code below I'll make more sense...

bio_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, sendToTop);
current_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, sendToTop);
news_mc.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, sendToTop);


function sendToTop(e:MouseEvent):void

{
	var maxIndex:Number = layers_mc.numChildren - 1;

	var texty:String = e.currentTarget.name
	//trace (e.currentTarget.name)

	var texty2:String = "layers."+texty+"_content"
	//trace (texty2)
   layers_mc.setChildIndex("texty2" as MovieClip, maxIndex);
   
   
}

the above doesn't work but if I put the last line as:

  layers_mc.setChildIndex(layers_mc.news_mc_content as MovieClip, maxIndex);

it does work. when I trace my texty2 variable it comes out as layers_mc.news_mc_content ...so what's going on, I'm new so I might be missing some obvious syntax mistake or sometime, I don't know! Hope I making sense... Please Help!

[Baby Minion]

layers_mc.swapChildren(layers_mc.getChildAtIndex(0 ), chosenMC);

try using that method