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POAS2: Disabling links in hidden Dynamic Text Fields & MovieClip children
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copied!<p>Greetings!</p> <p>I am working on an AS2 website with MovieClips for pages that swap depth when navigation is clicked. Text content is pulled dynamically from an external XML file & styled via CSS, including links (HTML/CDATA). My problem is this:</p> <p>When a page is hidden behind another via <code>swapDepths()</code>, HTML links within the hidden page are still clickable with the hand cursor. I have tried mc.enabled=false on the contents' parent clips, but it has no effect on the dynamic text string. Does anyone know how to disable CDATA links with Actionscript 2? </p> <p>The same question goes for MovieClip children in general: how does one disable movieClips within a parent clip in AS2 without hard coding instance names?</p> <p>Thanks in advance for any suggestions!</p> <p>Here is the code where I control my page swapping:</p> <pre><code>// class code.Startup() : page_arr = new Array(); // references clips laid out in the IDE page_arr = [ ['home', pages.homePage_mc], ['apartments', pages.apartmentsPage_mc], ['building', pages.buildingPage_mc], ['neighborhood', pages.neighborhoodPage_mc], ['press', pages.pressPage_mc], ['team', pages.teamPage_mc], ['retail', pages.retailPage_mc], ['office', pages.officePage_mc], ['contact', pages.contactPage_mc] ] // class code.Navigation() : private function showPage(num):Void { turnOffAllPages(); if(siteFirstRun == true){ prevPageObj = code.Startup.getInstance().page_arr[0][1]; //defaults to homepage, already showing currPageObj = code.Startup.getInstance().page_arr[num][1]; //sets currPageObj to whatever page was chosen with nav siteFirstRun = false; } else { if(currPageObj !== prevPageObj){ prevPageObj = currPageObj; } currPageObj = code.Startup.getInstance().page_arr[num][1]; } TweenLite.to(code.Startup.getInstance().page_arr[num][1], .25, {_alpha:100, ease:'easeOutQuad', delay:.25}); if(prevPageObj !== undefined){ currPageObj.swapDepths(code.Startup.getInstance().pages.getNextHighestDepth()); } currPageObj.copy_mc.enabled = true; } // Each page_arr clip contains a 'copy_mc' instance into which XML content is fed. These are what I need to target! private function turnOffAllPages():Void{ for(i=0; i<code.Startup.getInstance().numPages; i++){ code.Startup.getInstance().page_arr[i][1].copy_mc.enabled = false; // disable pages to avoid rolling over hidden links TweenLite.to(code.Startup.getInstance().page_arr[i][1], .2, {_alpha:0, ease:'easeOutQuad'}); } } </code></pre>

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