Duplicate 1 MC at a time in a loop? (Flash 8)

[SpitSpitSpitty]

Hey, I got this working but it duplicates the number of MCs in the loop all in one click.

I want it to duplicate the MC 1 at a time as the user clicks the button until the loop number limit is reached. Can anyone help me out here?


on (release) {

for(var i:Number = 1; i < 10; i++) {
_root.cell.duplicateMovieClip("cell" + i, i, {_x:200, _y:200});

}
}



Thanks in advance!

Spit

[a_modified_dog]

take your code off of the button
give the button an instance name
place code on the main timeline

var i:Number = 0;

btn.onRelease = function(){
i++;
_root.cell.duplicateMovieClip("cell" + i, i, {_x:200, _y:200});
}; 

note: using your positioning code, all duplicates will appear at x:200, y:200

[Pazil]

First off, program in a frame, not on a button. Give your button an instance name of myButton, and then write this into the main timeline frame:

myButton.onRelease = function ()
{
//Do things
}

Anyways, declare a variable that counts:
counter = 0;
and then just keep adding to the counter var every time you click, and check if it's over a certain number (10 for example).

Edit: Ha, well a_modified_dog beat me to it.

[SpitSpitSpitty]

Thanks guys! I got it working just the way I wanted it to!

[SpitSpitSpitty]

OK, I had this working where it would create 5 duplicate MCs of a MC called "cell". But as I was playing with other things in the movie, I came back to this and it started doing what it did before even after I removed all the new stuff I added.

It only duplicates the first and then the next time you press the button it just repositions the first duplicate to a different spot. It was making 5.

// Executes when the Duplicate button is released

var i:Number = 0;

_root.Duplicate.onRelease = function(){
i++;
if (cellCount < 5) {
_root.cell.duplicateMovieClip("cell" + i, i, {_x: 100+random(400), _y: 100+random(400)});
_global.cell_created = 1;
_global.cellCount = cellCount + 1;

}
count.text = cellCount;


}

[Pazil]

I've never had too much experience with duplicateMovieClip, as I quickly switched to attachMovie, which seemed a lot more stable and cleaner, since you don't need to have movieclips on stage to duplicate.

Edit:
So, thinking I better make a point in this message, attachMovie in my experience works a lot better, but if you're using duplicateMovieClip the only problem I can see is if you're using the i variable in a for loop or something somewhere else where it gets overwritten...It looks like you're doing something like that.