Question

I am playing with animation in AS3 and flex4, and I’ve come into a problem. My application is a game board (like a chess board), where each field is a border container added to some position.

Also I am adding a child element (shape), to this container on mouse click. What I want to achieve is to be able to move shapes smoothly from one field to another. But it appears that the shape goes behind the neighbor field this way http://screencast.com/t/iZ3DCdobs.

I believe this happens because shape is a child of specific border container, and to make it visible over every other container, I would need to use layers somehow….

I would be happy if anybody could suggest a solution

Answer 1

Yes you’re right on that. You should add the movable objects to a different layer.
As there are no typical layers in AS, you could try to drop the fields in one sprite and any other objects to a different an than place them on each other, so that when you will move a object it won’t go behind other objects.

If you place both sprites in the same position you will still have accurate x,y positions between movable objects and fields.