FLASH: game scripting question (based on Flash 4 Magic Concentration)

[Laura Mollett]

Hi all,


Well, I'm working on making a mahjong solitaire game (a matching game with

tiles) starting from the basic script in the Flash 4 magic book for

Concentration (Memory, Matching, whatever :). I'm doing pretty well, having

managed to figure out how to get the script to place the tiles where I want

them (there are spaces in Mahjong that don't exist in a concentration

layout) and to know where they are so it can check if a tile is free or not,

etc.


However, I've run into a sort of strange problem. To make the memory game,

all the movie clip symbols are placed on the stage. It doesn't matter where

as the actionscript on that frame then randomly moves them into place

(shuffles and deals). However, in Mahjong, some tiles are on top of others.

The script is happy to put them on top of each other for me, but the movie

sees tiles that were placed on the stage later as "on top" of ones brought

in earlier. (Normally you'd use the "bring to front" command to change this

position.) So they don't look right or can be hidden when they shouldn't be.

(The code IS filling the spaces row by row from bottom to top just fine - I

thought at first I might need to change where it loops, but that's not it.)


Selecting them all and choosing "bring to front" doesn't change this actual

layered position, nor does selecting them all and cutting and pasting them

back in at once. I thought I would put them on different layers, but I don't

know which tiles will be randomly placed on top and layers are flattened in

the swf anyway, and I'm not sure how to explain a "layer" to the code.


I can't seem to find a way to script a command. What I'd like to do is to

have the movie issue the "bring to front" command to each tile after it

moves them into place. Is there any way to do this? Alternatively, is there

a way to have the script actually get the tile from the library and place

it, rather than just moving it? Or is there some way to place them in one

frame and have it move them to another frame changing their 3dimensional

(for lack of a better word) position? Or any way at all to place them all on

the stage at the same time so there isn't any "bring to front"/ "send to

back" option - they're all the same? Or some way to tell the code to put

these on layer1, these on layer2, etc. so they'll be on top when the movie

is published? Or any other idea :)


I'd greatly appreciate any help anyone can give me. This has been tons of

fun up to now, but now I'm getting a little frustrated :)


Thanks again!

Laura Mollett


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