My application really needs popup dialogs to contain some custom controls I
have made. The answer seemed to be the PopUpManager, which, when I got the hang
of it, works fine. Only trouble is that my app loads another MovieClip into a
higher level (_level9, as it happens) while it is running. It loads this
externally, not from the library. This is where the trouble starts.

My popup dialog Windows, created with PopUpManager, now appear UNDER the
MovieClip at level9. I have tried casting them as MovieClips and using
DepthManager (mc.setDepthTo), but this only makes it worse. The popups are now
under the components (list, datagrid etc) on the _root movie. I am running out
of ideas, but don't want to have to build my own pop-up manager (this was why I
paid so much for the PRO edition....).

I would be grateful for any guidance. I'm a relative novice to Flash, even
though I have programmed in C++ for over 20 years. The movie level thing is
tough to master.

This is (only!) one of the aspects of Flash that can be confusing to newer
users, regardless of their experience developing on other platforms or with
other languages.

Your main movie, which controls your popups via PopUpManager is on _level0.
When you instanciate or duplicate clips in this movie, they are all at
_level0. Setting the depth of these clips (via setDepthTo or swapDepths),
sets their z order *whithin _level0 only* Your movie loaded into _level9
will always be above _level0, and there is nothing you can do about that. If
you need your popups to appear above this you have 2 option - you can either
create your popups in a level higher than 9, or you can load your _level9
content into a movieClip on _level0 rather than _level9, thus allowing you
to leave your popups on _level0, but place them above the content that is
currently in _level9.

HTH

}P

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