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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Ah, very interesting -- I'd been meaning to learn some UML, although so far I haven't embarked on a project large enough to require it. I definitely have a habit of writing pages of notes and planning (longhand) -- it helps organize my mind. I'll look into setInterval; I played with it a bit before, but didn't have quite enough background to get it to work. Now I think I do. At this very moment I'm doing that work for my friend, and I'm meditating on depth... I want to be able to dynamically populate the stage using library elements. MovieClip.attachMovie() does this admirably, but the required depth argument looks like it could cause problems. Right now, I'm setting a depth_index variable that increments each time I place a new object... but is there a way to get the highest depth of all objects (sort of a "paste in front"), or even better, to separate objects into arbitrary "layers" programmatically? I understand that I can create a blank movie clip to act as a layer-like container, and then load movie clips into that one, but I'm wondering if there's a better way. Anyway, this is just idle curiosity, on the off chance that someone feels like answering; I seem to have a firm enough grip that I can do this on my own. My first two attempts to learn Flash were disastrous, because I got caught up in unfamiliar and confusing keyframes and separate frame/object/button actions... but approaching it from a pure code perspective it's proving to be as easy as pie. edit: I read Penner's article on broadcast events and custom event sources, and I'm sure I can make use of them somewhere along the line. Good stuff, that man has. [This message has been edited by Perfect Thunder (edited 10-16-2003).] Hint: Press ALT+[1-9] to quickly quote one of the previous posts in whole.
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