Question

I have some mc’S stored in an array. I put the mc on the stage and I want that when I click on one of them this one should be in foreground and the others in the background.
How can I do the parentig?

Thank you for your time

Answer 1

If all of your MCs are in the same container, i.e., another MovieClip/Sprite, you can either update the child index of the “clicked mc” or just add it to the container again.

This would be your click handler:

function clickHandler(e:MouseEvent):void {
    //addChild puts the target clip on the top of the display list
    e.target.parent.addChild(e.target); 
}

It would be cleaner to reference the container by its’ instance name (like container.addChild()) rather than using e.target.parent. If you use “e.target”, make sure the ‘mouseChildren’ property in your MC is ‘false’.

If you prefer to set the child index of the clicked MC, you would do something like this:

function clickHandler(e:MouseEvent):void {
    // setting the child index to 0 puts the MC at the top of the list
    container.setChildIndex(e.target, 0);
}

Again, any time you use “e.target” make sure ‘mouseChildren’ is false or else the mouse focus could actually click on display objects inside of your “clicked mc”.