I could be wrong, but I believe that swapChildren is not supported in Flex Container. Neither is re-parenting. I would use PopUpManager to float the draggable image. You can call removeChild to remove from the container before handing to popupmanager. You might also want to build the whole thing by subclassing UIComponent.
________________________________ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of flashcrow2000 Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 5:13 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] swapchildren error: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller Hi again. I have the following sequence of code: if (this.parent.getChildIndex(this) < this.parent.numChildren-1) { trace(this.parent+" should swap the following items:") trace(this+" on level "+this.parent.getChildIndex(this)) trace(this.parent.getChildAt(this.parent.numChildren-1)+" on level "+(this.parent.numChildren-1)) try { this.parent.swapChildren(this, this.parent.getChildAt(int(this.parent.numChildren-1)) ); } catch (e:*) { trace(e) } } and it's output from the console window: FloatingWidgetContainer135.FloatingFrontView138.WidgetMainView198.Canvas 248 should swap the following items: FloatingWidgetContainer135.FloatingFrontView138.WidgetMainView198.Canvas 248.thumbnail280 on level 1 FloatingWidgetContainer135.FloatingFrontView138.WidgetMainView198.Canvas 248.thumbnail409 on level 2 ArgumentError: Error #2025: The supplied DisplayObject must be a child of the caller. The above code is called inside the mouse_Down listener for a custom thumbnail. The thumbnail is located inside a canvas and more instances of the thumbnail are added programatically when needed. The user has the option to drag and drop the thumbnail (this are thumbnails of uploaded pictures) and I need to swap them because the dragged object is shown below some of the thumbnails (for example, if I have 2 thumbs, and I drag the first one, it will be displayed below the second one, because of their corresponding depths. Each thumbnail creates the floating, draggable image as it's own child). One option would be to create the draggable item in the same canvas with the other thumbnails, but that might raise some issues related to the position of the draggable picture. Any ideas on this (I hope i'm not being too ambiguous) Thanks.
