Yes.
However, it was the simplest answer to Michael's question.
I'm afraid I didn't (and still don't) have time to answer the question
with a long 'here's how I'd actually do it and why it's a good idea
not to refer to nested clips like this' email, unfortunately. :-) It
was a quick fix for Michael, and in the long term, you're right - the
wrong answer.
Perhaps I shouldn't comment at all when I'm this short of time. :-)
But feel free to write your own answer, Anthony...
Ian
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Anthony Pace <anthony.p...@utoronto.ca> wrote:
> isn't getting a child by name very slow?
>
> Ian Thomas wrote:
>>
>> If each of the columns has .name='column1' etc:
>>
>> e.target.getChildByName("column10").gotoAndStop(5);
>>
>> should do it.
>>
>> But personally I'd at least do some type-checking on all that, and
>> would probably create a method inside an AllColumns class to handle
>> changeChar(). (Obviously I don't know what you're doing, though...)
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 7:59 PM, Mendelsohn, Michael
>> <michael.mendels...@fmglobal.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Wow, AS3 is different, even after reading Moock's book. I'm sure this
>>> is an easy question:
>>>
>>> How do you reference sprites within a sprite in an event listener?
>>>
>>> I have a child "allcolumns" within a sprite. Within "allcolumns" are 50
>>> columns (sprites), each named column1, column2, etc.
>>>
>>> Allcolumns has an event listener:
>>>
>>> private function changeChar(e:Event):void {
>>> e.target["column10"].gotoAndStop(5);
>>> }
>>>
>>>
>>> Result: ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property column10 not found on
>>> flash.display.Sprite and there is no default value.
>>>
>>> How to drill into what's in the e.target?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> - Michael M.
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