Actions on duplicated mc's?

[CTT_Mustapha]

Hi.

I've been trying but i can't seem to figure out how to attach actions to a movie clip that is created using duplicateMovieClip as there is no clip on the stage to add actions to. Can anybody help?


Thanks a lot

[hooligan2001]

place the actions inside the movieclip itself then. Are you duplicateing a mc from the library? if so just do that.

[CTT_Mustapha]

If i put the actions in the mc that i want to duplicate, will the new mc's that are created do the same as the one it was made from?

Thanks

[hooligan2001]

Should do Because it duplicates an exact replica Therefore any code and graphics inside the mc are duplicated too. But be carful with you code inside the duplicated mc. You cant use _x it has to be _root.moviename._x or _paerent and many other ways. Relative paths.

[Baukereg]

I've never worked with parent. I always uses:

name = _name;
_root[name]._x += 5;

[GameDev]

yeah, _parent is the quick way to address the outermost timeline of wich the code is stored inside an MC. As well, make sure that your code inside the dup. clips isnt too intensive... youll notice when you start dup. many w/ that code it will slow down.

Good Luck,

-Tyler

[CTT_Mustapha]

Thanks everybody. I got it working!

[DELETED_jtnw]

Originally posted by hooligan2001
But be carful with you code inside the duplicated mc. You cant use _x it has to be _root.moviename._x or _paerent and many other ways. Relative paths.

wait... you cant?
so if the actions are inside the duplicated mc on a frame you cant use _x, can you use this._x. that might be why my game is screwing up.

[tonypa]

Originally posted by jtnw
wait... you cant?
so if the actions are inside the duplicated mc on a frame you cant use _x, can you use this._x. that might be why my game is screwing up.

I think you can.
As far as I know there is no difference in using _x or this._x.

Not very sure what hooligan meant.

[xMCNUGGETx2]

Usually I dont code on frames. Id much rather have it on a mc in the enterFrame. So what people tend to do is have a mc inside of they're normal one. Ill use this analogy

Ive got kirby character. And inside of him I create a blank mc called brain. On the brain's enterFrame I have all my movement code for kirby. Well when I press Left, I dont want the brain's _x to move to the left. I want the whole thing to move. So in the brain mc instead of _x-=10 I can do _parent._x-=10.

Hopefully this explains it =D

Nugget