repeating actionscript...

[happymoonboy]

I have a script that duplicates movie clips, but I want to have the user specify how many clips are duplicated, how do I do this?
there will be an input text box for the variable of how many clips to duplicate...

HELP ME!!!!!

[DanCarrey]

for(i=0; i<userinputvariable; i++){
myMC.duplicateMovieClip(name+i, depth+i);
}

[gSOLO_01]

iNumber is the number from your input box

put this in an event (button press or something)

for (i = 0; i < iNumber; i++) {
     // duplicate movie here
     trace ("Movie Duplicated " + iNumber + " Times");
}

[happymoonboy]

thanks all, I will give it a try...

[happymoonboy]

hmmm... When I use this script, it only displays how many times the movie will be duplicated that many times, but only duplicates the MC once per button push...
bubble is the MC, and bubblez is the duplicated MC


on (release) {
for (i=0; i<iNumber; i++) {
bubble.duplicateMovieClip(bubblez+i, z++, i);
trace("Movie Duplicated "+iNumber+" Times");
}
}


what is wrong?
[Edited by happymoonboy on 07-09-2002 at 04:43 PM]

[gSOLO_01]

your supposed to replace my // comments with the duplicate movieclip code

for (i = 0; i < iNumber; i++) {
     bubble.duplicateMovieClip(bubble+i, i++);
     trace ("Movie Duplicated " + i++ + " Times");
}

[DanCarrey]

don't worry happymoonboy I encountered the same thing you did with typing out the for statement on the board.

flashkit doesn't like the < symbol

everything got duplicated right, they're just placing themselves over each other. try adding something like:

_root[myMC +i]._x = 20 * i;

inside the conditional loop

[happymoonboy]

still no dice, gSolo...
i did it exactly as you did, but it wont duplicate the clip. I think it is maybe a layer problem.

[happymoonboy]

Originally posted by DanCarrey
don't worry happymoonboy I encountered the same thing you did with typing out the for statement on the board.

flashkit doesn't like the < symbol

everything got duplicated right, they're just placing themselves over each other. try adding something like:

_root[myMC +i]._x = 20 * i;

inside the conditional loop

I already have a script in the duplicated MC to move to random coordinates.