FLASH: actionScript question: frustrated because it's so easy in Director!

[Bryan Ax]

OK, so I'm trying to recreate a silly little game I already did in Director

using Flash 5 scripting now...


Anyway, the question is this:


Let's say you assign a movieClip to a particular level in a movie using:


 _root.attachMovie("newDrop", "thisDrop"+myLevel,myLevel);


where myLevel is the level we're putting the value in to.  Is there anyway

then from within each movie clip to reference it's own _level, much like in

Director you can have an object reference it's own spritenum?


I've got a workaround that's working for what I need to do by popping

elements from an array and assigning that to a property in my child object,

but it seems silly to have to do this.  What am I missing?


Bryan Ax



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