Trace all DisplayObject’s children

April 28th, 2010 Marvin Blase

Just cleaned up my development folder as stumbling upon that little script to trace every children
(and it's children) in a specific DisplayObject:

PLAIN TEXT

Actionscript:

1. traceDisplayList(allCon, "=>");
2.  
3. function traceDisplayList(container:DisplayObjectContainer, indentString:String = ""):void {
4.      var child:DisplayObject;
5.  
6.      for (var i:uint=0; i <container.numChildren; i++) {
7.           child = container.getChildAt(i);
8.           trace(indentString, child.parent.name + " " + indentString + " " + child.name);
9.  
10.           if (container.getChildAt(i) is DisplayObjectContainer) {
11.                traceDisplayList(DisplayObjectContainer(child), indentString + "");
12.           }
13.      }
14. }
15.  
16. // => allCon => container00
17. // => container00 => clipA
18. // => container00 => clipB
19. // => container00 => clipC
20. // => ClipC => ClipC1
21. // => ClipC => ClipC2
22. // ...

Tough miniscript to get a whole detailed trace of every children's children in the passed DisplayObject. Used that once for debugging but was surprised now it's still working :)

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2 Responses to “Trace all DisplayObject’s children”

1. Matan Uberstein says:

   14/05/2010 at 10:06 AM

   It's funny, I made a similar code snippet a long time ago. I'm sure a lot of people did, but with IDE's like FDT these are redundant.

   I cleaned out my lib the other day as well, just got rid of all this stuff. I also dropped FP9 support out of my lib, no use in maintaining it any more. It's all about new stuff!

   Thx for the post! :)
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