The ActionScript 3 `addChild()` function
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When to use addChildViewController vs pushViewController
I just watched a 2011 WWDC presentation on "Implementing UIViewController Containment" (here's a link to the video)
They mentioned both of these ways of adding viewControllers to the screen, and I would appreciate some clarification on best…

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Adding child document to existing mongodb document
Essentially I am just trying to add a new sub-document to my existing mongodb document that has the following schema
/models/server/destination.js
// this is the "destination" model for mongoose
var mongoose = require('mongoose')
var Adventure =…

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What is the difference between addChildViewController and presentModelViewController
I know there are three ways to change the view in iOS
1.
[self addChildViewController:thirdViewController];
[contentView addSubview:thirdViewController.view];
2.
First * sVC = [[First alloc] initWithNibName:@"First" bundle:[NSBundle mainBundle]];…

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simple xml add namespaced child
I'm using SimpleXML to create an RSS feed for Google Products and I want to create a namespaced child but when I do for example
$item->addChild('g:id', 'myid');
it adds
myid
instead of
Besides I have added at the top

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Adobe Flash Builder (flex4): addChild() is not available in this class.
I want to load an swf into a flex 4 application in order to use its classes.
var ldr:Loader=new Loader();
ldr.load(new URLRequest("file://path/to/fileswf"));
ldr.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.INIT, loaded);
function loaded(evt:Event):void…

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addChild(): How can I know when a DisplayObject is actually displayed on the stage?
I've got a large (4096x4096) image loaded into memory, but when I try to use addChild, there is a long delay before it actually gets drawn to the screen. This is expected. However, is there an event I can listen for to know the moment that the…

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mouseChildren = false not working very well for me
Happy new year btw !
I want to separate event handling from a container and it child. So as you can see, my source code is very simple :
package {
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
…

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PHP SimpleXML->addChild - unwanted empty namespace attribute
I'm attempting to use SimpleXML's addChild method of the SimpleXMLElement (actually a SimpleXMLIterator which is a subclass of SimpleXMLElement) to add child elements.
My problem is that the source document contains a mixture of elements with…
user573151
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Has someone run across a way to force PHP SimpleXMLElement node names to upper case?
The API integration documents specify that that all node name are case sensitive. I'm using PHP SimpleXMLElement and I don't see a way to force upper case node names. Has someone run across a way to force node names to upper case?
$xmlstr =…

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addChildViewController alternative for iOS 4.3
I would like to use the same functionality of addChildViewController, but for the version 4.3 (addChildViewController is only available in version 5).
Thanks in advance.

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add image as child of a CC3Node
I'm using Cocos3D.
There i've a list of different CC3Nodes. I want to put an image next to each of it.
My problem is: how to create a new CC3Node and add it as a Child.

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Variable addChild is not defined?
i have a problem using AS3 - Flash CS3 gives me this Error message: Error #1065: Variable addChild is not defined.
Any ideas what's wrong?
This is my code:
package coa.application{
import flash.display.SimpleButton;
import…

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Flash AS3 dynamically added children . Problem with naming them and calling each separated
I need to access each children after i dynamically added them to the stage , but i`m having problems figuring out how .
On click it adds the image to the stage , and I need to make them glow one at a time , with a for() , but I cant figure out how…

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What does self.addChild Do?
This is sort of a stupid question, but what does the function self.addChild() do?
I am familiar with this function, and how to use it, but I am not exactly sure what it adds the child to.
For instance, I have created and designed an SKShapeNode…

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Swift: Use of unresolved identifier 'addChild'
import SpriteKit
class GameScene: SKScene
{
let player = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "Gun")
override func didMoveToView(view: SKView)
{
backgroundColor = SKColor.whiteColor()
player.position = CGPoint(x:…

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