How to fix overlapping objects on the stage in AS3

Question

I have a flash game where I have a picture designed to be the textbox for a prompt and textbox inside with the relevant text but the textbox is being hidden by the image. A

Answer 1

The order of adding display objects to display object containers effect their z-order, in other words the front to back order. The last added display object becomes the frontmost. So the child index of the children of a display object container is important for drawing of overlapped children.

If you put picture and text on the same DisplayObjectContainer such as a MovieClip:

Lets say your DisplayObjectContainer is mc.

And your textbox is txt

Please try this:

mc.setChildIndex(txt, mc.numChildren-1);