MACROMEDIA FLEX-FLEX ACTIONSCRIPT LANGUAGE Reference page 619

Description
Method; swaps the stacking, or z-order (depth level), of the specified instance (
movie clip specified by the
depth level specified in the
clip. Swapping the depth level of movie clips has the effect of moving one movie clip in front of or
behind the other. If a movie clip is tweening when this method is called, the tweening is stopped.
You can extend the methods and event handlers of the MovieClip class by creating a subclass.
Example
The following example swaps the stacking order of two movie clip instances. Overlap two movie
clip instances on the Stage, called
ActionScript to your AS or FLA file:
myMC1_mc.onRelease = function() {
this.swapDepths(myMC2_mc);
};
myMC2_mc.onRelease = function() {
this.swapDepths(myMC1_mc);
};
See also
MovieClip.getDepth(), MovieClip.getInstanceAtDepth(),
MovieClip.getNextHighestDepth()
MovieClip.tabChildren
Availability
Flash Player 6.
Usage
my_mc.tabChildren:Boolean
Description
Property;
undefined
clip are included in automatic tab ordering. If the value of
a movie clip are not included in automatic tab ordering.
Example
A list box UI widget built as a movie clip contains several items. The user can click each item to
select it, so each item is a button. However, only the list box itself should be a tab stop. The items
inside the list box should be excluded from tab ordering. To do this, the
the list box should be set to
The
tabChildren
property affects only automatic tab ordering.
parameter, or with the movie clip that currently occupies the
target
parameter. Both movie clips must have the same parent movie
depth
myMC1_mc
by default. If
tabChildren
.
false
property has no effect if the
and and then add the following
myMC2_mc
is or
undefined
tabChildren
property is used; the
tabIndex
) with the
my_mc
, the children of a movie
true
is , the children of
false
property of
tabChildren
tabChildren
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