Accessing pieces of bitmaps inside a movieclip - actionscript-3

Question

I have a movieclip with 10 bitmaps in it. I wanna access each of them.
myMovieClip is the movieclip containing those 10 bitmaps. I wanna access those bitmaps one by one. All 10 bitmaps are imported separately.
I tried this :
for ( var i =0 ; i< myMovieClip.numChildren ; i++)
{
trace ( myMovieClip.getChildAt(i) );
}
Problem is numChildren comes "1" only, as if it doesnot consider those 10 pieces of bitmap. Any other way, to access those bitmaps ?
thanks
V.

Answer 1

what do you mean by pieces of bitmaps?? Do you mean 10 different bitmap objects are children of the movieClip??
In addition, your code does have a syntax error.
var newMc:MovieClip = MovieClip();
should be:
var newMc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
second off all, in your loop, numChildren will be always changing since you are taking the reference of a child from the myMoiveClip and moving it to the newMc object. there are two way to fix this.
either set a local variable to the value of myMovieClip.numChildren and use that value in your loop
example:
var numOfChildren:int = myMovieClip.numChildren;
for(var i:int = 0; i < numOfChildren; i++){
var newMc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
newMc.addChild(myMovieClip.getChildAt(i));
}
this will move the bitmaps out of myMovieClip and into newMc, if you want to keep them there you can create a new bitmap inside the loop and then add the new bitmap to the newMc.
example:
for(var i:int = 0; i < myMovieClip.numChildren; i++){
var newMc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
var b:Bitmap = new Bitmap(Bitmap(myMovieClip.getChildAt(i)).bitmapData);
newMc.addChild(b);
}