Question

I have always gotten around this by adding elements programmatically if I want to access them with ActionScript, but I am in a situation now where that would be prohibitively difficult. My movies all require network access, so I can’t run them locally, so trace() statements don’t work either. Does anybody know if it is even possible to access an element (in this case a dynamic text field) using script? And if so, how do I access it?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

If you’re referring to objects placed on the stage in the Flash design view, just make sure you’ve given the object an “instance name” in the properties panel. Then you can refer to the object by movieClipName.instanceName, or _root.instanceName if the object isn’t nested in any child movie clips.