Changing depths of movie clips

Hi Everyone,
I have 8 square movie clips in two rows of 4, all on the same
layer. When
you click on them they become draggable. The problem is that,
depending on
where they are located within the layer, sometimes a dragging
movie clip
appears beneath the other 7 movie clips. Is there a way to
make the selected
movie clip that is being dragged, appear above or on top of
the other seven,
no matter which one is selected and being dragged?
Thanks for any insight,
Doug

"kglad" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:ghrojd$ssl$[email protected]..
> use the swapDepths() method of movieclips to move the
clicked movieclip to
> the topmost depth.
Thanks kglad =
on (press) {
this.swapDepths(_root.getNextHighestDepth());
startDrag("", true);

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