Need help duplicating movie clip...

I have a movie clip that will move around the stage. it will consist of 10 frames. on the 10th frame it will duplicate a dot (instance name) movie and slowly create a path around the stage.

Here is the code I have on the 10th frame of my moving movieclip (a bee)

Code:

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i++;
dot.duplicateMovieClip("dot"+i,i);
eval("dot"+i)._y = theBee._y;
eval("dot"+i)._x = theBee._x;

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Any ideas?

Thanks

i suggest putting a limit to the duplication, or remove after a certain number of dups. It'll prevent the player from crashing at some point in the process.
more info on duplicateMovieClip

gparis

The dots have a clip event that fades them and then remove the mc once the alpha =1. so the path will disappear. and that should help with the player resources.

my problem is this isn't even working at all...

ok i have the bee leaving a trail of dots but for some reason when i remove them the code leaves every eighth one.

Code:

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onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
        _root.gone=_root.i-20
        _root.i++;
        trace(_root.gone)
        _root.dot.duplicateMovieClip("dot"+_root.i,_root.i);
        _root["dot"+_root.i]._x = _root.theBee._x;
        _root["dot"+_root.i]._y = _root.theBee._y;
        removeMovieClip(_root["dot"+_root.gone]);
}

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