flash actionscript: dear answerer of questions,

I am dynamically attaching movie clips on the stage, these clips, one by one
dynamically appear on the stage, building up over time. I want to now add a
text field to each movie where I will pass some text into.

When I do this statically, ie. place the MC directly on the stage it works
fine.

I have placed this scripting on the launch button, and removed extra code from
the example below.

- firstURL2 is the name of the new MC being placed
- firstURLDynText.text is the name of the text box inside of the MC

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launchButton.onRelease = function() {
this._parent.attachMovie("nodeLinkFirst", NodeFirst,
this._parent.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:currentX, _y:currentY});
this._parent.attachMovie("firstURL", firstURL2,
this._parent.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:currentX+10, _y:currentY});
this._parent.firstURL2.firstURLDynText.text = startURLBox;
};
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Any thoughts?
Aidan

1. Does nodeLinkFirst MC contain a textfield named firstURLDynText?

Originally posted by: unusedname
1. Does nodeLinkFirst MC contain a textfield named firstURLDynText?

No, firstURL MC contains the textfield named firstURLDynText, that is where I
want the text to appear, not in nodeLink MC. Am I missing something here?

2. Have you defined the linkage identifier for the nodeLinkFirst MC?

I am not sure what you mean here, I have defined the linkage identifier for
nodeLInkFirst MC but that is not related to what I am doing - or at least I
don't think so. I have also defined the linkage for firstURL MC.

can you shed some more light on the scenario?

thanks,
Aidan

Try adding the following code to the first frame of the movie:

currentX=10;
currentY=10;
startURLBox="Some text";

launchButton.onRelease = function() {
this._parent.attachMovie("nodeLinkFirst", "NodeFirst",
this._parent.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:currentX, _y:currentY});
this._parent.attachMovie("firstURL", "firstURL2",
this._parent.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:currentX+10, _y:currentY});
this._parent.firstURL2.firstURLDynText.text = startURLBox;
};