Question

has anyone ever tried to get the list of all the movieclips (even the nested ones) that are on Stage at a specified stopped (and current) frame in Flash 8, AS 2?

I did the following:

for(i in _root){ if(typeof(_root[i])=='movieclip'){ trace(_root[i]);} } 

But this is good for a first level search: that is, if inside the movieclips you have other movieclips, you can’t reach them. Furthermore, inside a movieclip there can be more then one movieclip.

Has anyone ever tried to do what I’m trying to do?

Bye!

Answer 1

Are you just trying to trace? If so there’s a nice little undocumented utility called ObjectDumper that can do this.

This is probably the best explanation of it out there

So what you can do is this:

import mx.data.binding.ObjectDumper;  trace(ObjectDumper.toString(_root)); 

There may be a lot of extras (functions, variables, etc) in there, so there are additional parameters you can use:

ObjectDumper.toString(obj, showFunctions, showUndefined, showXMLstructures, maxLineLength, indent)