[fugli] Re: extend mc

[Bill Lane]

If Menu class doesn't extend MovieClip then I would have thought it wouldn't have access to attachMovie which is a method of MovieClip.  But you say it worked for a single instance.  If you don't have access to attachMovie I wouldn't have expected it to work at all.   How come you increment _depth twice when you have only used one depth?  It shouldn't affect the outcome but I'm just curious.   Bill Lane >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/22/05 10:07 am >>> I’m having some trouble applying these new (to me) best practices I watched the other night. I am trying to build a dynamic menu;   I have a Main.as class that extends movieClip that calls a menu class new HorizontalTabMenu(model.getMenuArray(), this, 200, 20, 20);   The menu class doesn’t extend movieClip and its purpose is to manage the menu and attach the buttons.   The button movieClip has a class attached; “TabButton” is the mc, with “TabButton.as” attached   So I’m trying to attach the clips from the menu class but it isn’t working (BTW I had it working on a single instances, it’s this example where I’m creating multiple instances is where I’m making a mistake)   Menu class ~ for (var i:Number = 0; i<mData.length; i++) {                tab = target_mc.attachMovie("TabButton", "tab"+i+"_mc", _depth);                _depth++;                tab.setProps(this, mData[i].LABEL, mData[i].ID, _depth);                _depth++;                tab._x = _x;                tab._y = _y;                _x += tab.returnNextX();                tabs_array.push(tab) }   ^ here im trying to attach the mc from the library into the tab var so that I can add it to the array ^ without doing that I wasn’t sure how I could reference the movieclip without placing it in the mc_variable   I have a trace running on the TabButton class constructor and it doesn’t instantiate.       --- You are currently subscribed to fugli as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/   --- You are currently subscribed to fugli as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/ --- You are currently subscribed to fugli as: archive@mail-archive.com To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/