duplicate movie clips for multiple MC's

[fitchic77]

I need to duplicate several MC's (each one x 20) when he movie is loaded.

I can't get it to work for the life of me....

Any ideas?
Thanks
~fit

this code resides in _root.MC and the first frame
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count = 0;

function dup1() {
while (count<20) {
circle.duplicateMovieClip("circle"+count, count);
count++;
}
}

count2 = 0;
function dup2() {
while (count2<20) {
circle2.duplicateMovieClip("circle2"+count2, count2);
count2++;
}
}

dup1();
dup2();

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Only duplicates the circle2. If I don't initiate the 2nd func (dup2();...it works for circle...and visa/versa?????????

Can you NOT do duplicate movies for multiple MC's??

[jbum]

The problem is the depth of the movies you are duplicating (the 2nd parameter).

You can only have one movieclip at a particular depth. If you try to put a second movieclip at the same depth, it obliterates the first one. To fix, in your dup2 code, change this line:

circle2.duplicateMovieClip("circle2"+count2, count2);

to this:

circle2.duplicateMovieClip("circle2"+count2, count2 + 20);

so the second set of movies go to unique depths.

It's also worth mentioning that you could use a single function that accepts parameters, and reduce the amount of code by half.

For example:

code:

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function myDupe(mc, nameRoot, minDepth) 

{

 for (count = 0; count < 20; ++count)

 {

  mc.duplicateMovieClip(nameRoot+count, minDepth+count);

 }

}



myDupe(circle, "circle", 0);

myDupe(circle2, "circle2", 20);

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