Duplicating Movie Clips into a Grid Layout

[sjcallan]

Hi,
I hoping someone can help me on this one... let me see if I can explain.

I'm trying to duplicate a movie clip and adjust the _x and _y values. What's interesting here is that I need to have the duped mcs lay out in a grid... so....

4 duplicated movie clips across then down a row and 4 across then down a row adn etc. etc.

I'm not sure how to accomplish this, could it be a loop within a loop??

Any thoughts would be awesome. BTW I'm using Flash 8.

Thanks

[xtraterrestrial]

Yes you could have a loop in a loop:

for(y=0;y<down;y++){
for(x=0;x<across;x++){
duplicateMovieClip("mc","newname_"+x+y,x*20+y);
setProperty("newname_"+x+y,_x,startx+xincrement*x) ;
setProperty("newname_"+x+y,_y,starty+yincrement*y) ;
}
}

And obviously setting variables startx,starty,xincrement,yincrement,across and down.

Anyway I am using Flash MX so I assume it will work for you

[sjcallan]

That worked exactly like I was hoping.

Thanks xtraterrestrial.

[xtraterrestrial]

I forgot to mention that if you have more than 20 clips down the depth parameter there (x*20+y) will make some clips not show up as they will have the same depth. To fix this issue make 20 a bigger number or make it x*down+y