[F8] Easier way to replace MCs than attachMC?

I have a place holder MC, inside of which are several other MCs. I also have alternate MCs on stage at various spots. My goal is to "build" one "master" MC with a mix-n-match type of application.

okay... picture a snowman.. 3 circles on top of each other, one bigger than the next. This is my "default master" MC. Each circle is yet another MC. Now around the stage I have triangles and squares and whatever.

If you click on a triangle I want it to replace the top circle in the default master MC. Then you can "choose" how your snowman looks. a triangle head, a large square middle and a tiny circle bottom... etc...

Right now I am using emptyMCs as the place holders inside the master MC, but the coding is getting out of hand. Is there a more simple method to swap MCs, whereby each old MC would be removed from the Master MC, not just covered up?

~MoN

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Originally Posted by MasterofNothing

I have a place holder MC, inside of which are several other MCs. I also have alternate MCs on stage at various spots. My goal is to "build" one "master" MC with a mix-n-match type of application.

okay... picture a snowman.. 3 circles on top of each other, one bigger than the next. This is my "default master" MC. Each circle is yet another MC. Now around the stage I have triangles and squares and whatever.

If you click on a triangle I want it to replace the top circle in the default master MC. Then you can "choose" how your snowman looks. a triangle head, a large square middle and a tiny circle bottom... etc...

Right now I am using emptyMCs as the place holders inside the master MC, but the coding is getting out of hand. Is there a more simple method to swap MCs, whereby each old MC would be removed from the Master MC, not just covered up?

~MoN

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Hmm.. one thing I can think of is to just have multiple states of the snow-man's movie clip parts and, depending on which one is selected, that will change. For example...

code:

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triangleOption.onRelease = function(){

snowmanHead.gotoAndStop(2);

}//end onRelease

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Thanks! That sounds like what I want..

Would I need to add or change anything if I want to keep the selected snowman to use later?

Like the snowman you build is the main character for the rest of the movie, do I need to use SO for this or set a var to remember the selections?

~MoN

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Originally Posted by MasterofNothing

Thanks! That sounds like what I want..

Would I need to add or change anything if I want to keep the selected snowman to use later?

Like the snowman you build is the main character for the rest of the movie, do I need to use SO for this or set a var to remember the selections?

~MoN

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Hmm... well... One thing you could do in that case is to perhaps set up a variable in the above if statement that you can use as reference for later.

[AS]

I didn't think about that :) I will play around with that and see what I can come up with.

Thanks again!

~MoN