Yes, but what I was getting at, if it's a component, why does it need to have access to the main timeline? Components normally shouldn't be that tightly coupled.
Could you instead pass a reference to a public property in the component of the filename instead of trying to access the filename from the component itself? Jason Merrill Bank of America Enterprise Technology & Global Risk L&LD Instructional Technology & Media Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning ideas and technologies? Check out our internal Innovative Learning Blog & subscribe. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Helmut Granda Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:31 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Access MainTimeline reference from within a component Good question... If you use the methtod describeType for the main timeline you are able to extract the file name you are working with. //something like this: trace(describeType(root)); <type name="Untitled_fla::MainTimeline" Now this has to be done on the timeline, once you try to do describeType(root) from within a movieclip (or a component) you will get the following: trace(describeType(root)); <type name="flash.display::MovieClip" So I am trying to extract the file name by targeting the "MainTimeline".... does that makes sense? On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Merrill, Jason < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, I'll be the one to ask this. So just curious, since components > normally should be decoupled from objects outside themselves (i.e. the > main timeline) - what is driving this - is there a better way to > re-think this overall or must you really target the main timeline? > > Jason Merrill > Bank of America > Enterprise Technology & Global Risk L&LD > Instructional Technology & Media > > Join the Bank of America Flash Platform Developer Community > > Are you a Bank of America associate interested in innovative learning > ideas and technologies? > Check out our internal Innovative Learning Blog & subscribe. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Helmut > Granda > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 4:04 PM > To: Flash Coders List > Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Access MainTimeline reference from within a > component > > Ok, so my component is being added to a blank FLA, which then it would > have > MainTimeline as the default name since there is no Document Class. Is > there > anyway to access the MainTimeline information from a blank FLA from > within a > component? > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Eduardo Omine > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > I understand that Flash prepends the filename to "MainTimeline" as a > > convenience because there's no DocumentClass. > > "MainTimeline" is not a class or type definition, it's simply a > default > > name. > > > > -- > > Eduardo Omine > > http://blog.omine.net/ > > http://www.omine.net/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Flashcoders mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > > > > > > -- > ...helmut > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > [email protected] > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > -- ...helmut _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
