Comments on: The Problems with Managing Depth in ActionScript http://xtyler.com/code/6 a developer's blog. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:58:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Martin Scott http://xtyler.com/code/6/comment-page-1#comment-11869 Martin Scott Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:39:54 +0000 http://www.xtyler.com/?p=6#comment-11869 Absolutely brilliant! It does exactly what it says on the tin! I have being using Flash with AS2 with versions 8 & 9 for a few years. I have always had problems with relative depths between text fields and movie clips. I hit a brick wall last week when trying to put a popup window containing text on top of other text fields and movie clips. I tried the recommended techniques, but got nowhere. I came across your XT DepthManager last night and it took me less than half a day to get the app working, including the popup window. I haven’t check AS3, so Adobe may have come up with its own solution, but for me bringToFront() and sendToBack() are ideal, and they’re all I need. I wish I’d found out about them sooner. Regards Martin Scott (martin@compan.net) Absolutely brilliant! It does exactly what it says on the tin!
I have being using Flash with AS2 with versions 8 & 9 for a few years. I have always had problems with relative depths between text fields and movie clips. I hit a brick wall last week when trying to put a popup window containing text on top of other text fields and movie clips. I tried the recommended techniques, but got nowhere.
I came across your XT DepthManager last night and it took me less than half a day to get the app working, including the popup window.
I haven’t check AS3, so Adobe may have come up with its own solution, but for me bringToFront() and sendToBack() are ideal, and they’re all I need. I wish I’d found out about them sooner.
Regards
Martin Scott (martin@compan.net)

]]> By: xtyler http://xtyler.com/code/6/comment-page-1#comment-11415 xtyler Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:04:02 +0000 http://www.xtyler.com/?p=6#comment-11415 Janos - hmm, somehow I had a mis-import in the DepthManager.as ... all is fixed now. And yes, this class handles all elements that are placed on the stage in design time, which take up those negative depths. In fact it even (automatically) fixes the restriction of removing MovieClips when they're in the negatives. good luck! Janos -

hmm, somehow I had a mis-import in the DepthManager.as … all is fixed now. And yes, this class handles all elements that are placed on the stage in design time, which take up those negative depths. In fact it even (automatically) fixes the restriction of removing MovieClips when they’re in the negatives.

good luck!

]]> By: Janos http://xtyler.com/code/6/comment-page-1#comment-8719 Janos Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:01:05 +0000 http://www.xtyler.com/?p=6#comment-8719 Hi, Does this work with negative timeline depths? Those in the -16,000 to -1 range? Also, could you post an FLA file with the zip showing how to import this ? I get the error : "'com.codext.utils.Prototype' could not be loaded." Hi, Does this work with negative timeline depths? Those in the -16,000 to -1 range? Also, could you post an FLA file with the zip showing how to import this ? I get the error : “‘com.codext.utils.Prototype’ could not be loaded.”

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