duplicatemovieclips, and possible array

[webadec]

hi, i'm stuck, and probably doing something stupid here...

say i have 26 movies on the stage with instance names a,b,c,d.. etc etc

i wanted to duplicate them a number of times...

i started with this which worked for a :

dupuntil = 10
for (dup=0; dup<dupuntil; dup++){
a.duplicateMovieClip("a"+dup,dup);
}

great now have 10 a's

i thought i could get away with :

dupuntil = 10
for (dup=0; dup<dupuntil; dup++){
a.duplicateMovieClip("a"+dup,dup);
b.duplicateMovieClip("b"+dup,dup);
}

but it still seems to do just the 'a' movie, and not the 'b'

so then i thought i'd try an array, this was just to try and get the 'a' done

dup = ("a","b","c" ... etc);
for (du=0;du<dup.length;du++){
dup[0].duplicateMovieClip("dup[0]"+du,du);
}

this didnt work at all, but if it did i was going to somehow make it go through all the movies, 'a', 'b', 'c' etc ...

any hints on how to get all the movies duplicated ?

thanks

ade

ps i only have Flash MX at the mo...

[swak]

you could try:
var num:Number = 0;
if (num < 10){
a.duplicateMovieClip("a"+dup,dup);
num+=1;
}
I'm sure that this won't have the same limitations.

[gorlummeeguvnor]

for (dup=0; dup<dupuntil; dup++){
a.duplicateMovieClip("a"+dup,dup);
b.duplicateMovieClip("b"+dup,dup);
}
with this you are setting b to the same depth as a and so replacing a with b

for (dup=0; dup<dupuntil; dup++){
a.duplicateMovieClip("a"+dup,dup);
b.duplicateMovieClip("b"+dup,dup+20);
}
this should do the trick as long as dup is less than 20 of course

[webadec]

thanks to you both.... gorlummeeguvnor .. works cool...

i added a line with 'c' movie using dup+30 .. and all works good!

thanks

[gorlummeeguvnor]

a pleasure

[webadec]

umm just one more question if i may ...

i also have 10 more movies with instance names .. 0 - 9 ... so i tried the same code.. but it errors with :

Scene=Scene 1, Layer=script, Frame=2: Line 29: ';' expected
1.duplicateMovieClip("1"+dup,dup+270);

Scene=Scene 1, Layer=script, Frame=2: Line 30: ';' expected
2.duplicateMovieClip("2"+dup,dup+280);

using numbers is not allowed then ?

this could be interesting as the php script strips all letters and takes the first.. ie a will = a1 = a3 =a4 etc...

if i cant use 1 as an instance name then i'll find some way of editng the php script .. as at the moment 'one' would = 'o' .... :S

[swak]

No numbers don't work, you should stick with letters as the first.

[gorlummeeguvnor]

or use underscore ie _1

[webadec]

thanks! ...i couldn't use _1 , '_' was already being used to break up the string in php

in the end i doubled up everything so i could use the instance name of 'one' and stripped the first 2 charactors.. ie aa or aa1 =aa.gif , and now i could use one as, one = on.gif

thanks for your help!