bring to front

[chefkeifer]

is there a way within a tween to bring the mc to the front. like setChildIndex.

 

i have two movie clips that are on the stage and both of those movie clips have animation in them as well as a button. but when the one is playing i need it to be on top so that the button cans be accessible.

[GreenSock]

No, but you could use an onStart callback to do that sort of thing. It wouldn't force it on every frame to the top, but it would do so at the beginning of the tween which is probably all you need. Right?

[chefkeifer]

i am not familiar with the onStart. do you have a link i could read about or an example?

[GreenSock]

Sure,

 

TweenLite.to(mc, 1, {x:100, delay:0.5, onStart:bringToFront, onStartParams:[mc]});

function bringToFront(object:DisplayObject):void {
   object.parent.addChild(object);
}

 

onStart allows you to define a function to call when the tween starts. In this case, after the delay of 0.5 seconds, the tween will begin and call the onStart which is pointed to bringToFront. Make sense?