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9.4

How do I duplicate movie clip and access it?

Asked by NiklasMoller in Macromedia Flash, Miscellaneous Web Development

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I have a problem which probably is related to levels or depth in flash, but I just cant work it out...
Basically I have just created a movieclip called "bg_mc". It shows up nicely on my stage, jpg loaded into it and all. so far so good.

I want to duplicate it and then access the new (just duplicated) movieclip. it doesnt work.

I am using the movieClipLoader class to do the loading work for me.
I have assigned some code to a button to find out if the movieclip exists or not.
The duplicated movieclip should exist, but it doesnt (when i press the button, the trace says:  "undefined" when I ask for the ._x position of the duplicated movieclip.)

The dynamic loading of the jpg and the loadMovieClip class function works fine (or so I think... hehe) but the duplicateMovieClip doesnt work... what am I missing here?

Heres my code:
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function createMovieClipLoaderObject($newObjectName){
	
	//Just store a copy of the name of the object into a new variable:
	var $newObject = $newObjectName;	
	//Convert it to an object:
	var $newObject:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
	
	//create a unique name for this listener:
	var $listener_name = $newObjectName+"_listener";
	//save the new name:
	var $listener = $listener_name;
	//keep the name, but convert it to an object:
	var $listener:Object = new Object();
	
	$listener.onLoadStart = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
	   trace("*********"+$newObjectName+" instance*********");
	   trace("onLoadStart event triggered:");
	   trace("Your load has begun on movie clip = "+target_mc);
	   var loadProgress:Object = $newObject.getProgress(target_mc);
	   trace(loadProgress.bytesLoaded+" = bytes loaded at start");
	   trace(loadProgress.bytesTotal+" = bytes total at start");
	};
	$listener.onLoadProgress = function(target_mc:MovieClip, loadedBytes:Number, totalBytes:Number) {
	   trace("*********"+$newObjectName+" instance Progress*********");
	   trace("onLoadProgress event triggered:");
	   trace("onLoadProgress() called back on movie clip "+target_mc);
	   trace(loadedBytes+" = bytes loaded at progress callback");
	   trace(totalBytes+" = bytes total at progress callback");
	};
	$listener.onLoadComplete = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
	   trace("*********"+$newObjectName+" instance*********");
	   trace("onLoadComplete event triggered:");
	   trace("Your load is done on movie clip = "+target_mc);
	   var loadProgress:Object = $newObject.getProgress(target_mc);
	   trace(loadProgress.bytesLoaded+" = bytes loaded at end");
	   trace(loadProgress.bytesTotal+" = bytes total at end");
	};
	$listener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip) {
	   trace("*********"+$newObjectName+" instance*********");
	   trace("onLoadInit event triggered:");
	   trace("Movie clip = "+target_mc+" is now initialized");
	   // you can now do any setup required, for example:
	   //trace("width of image is: "+target_mc._width);
	   //trace("height of image is: "+target_mc._height);
	};
	$listener.onLoadError = function(target_mc:MovieClip, errorCode:String) {
	   trace("*********"+$newObjectName+" instance*********");
	   trace("onLoadError event triggered:");
	   trace("ERROR CODE = "+errorCode);
	   trace("Your load failed on movie clip = "+target_mc+"\n"); 
	};
 
	$newObject.addListener($listener);	
 
	return $newObject;
};// end function create object
 
//====================================================================
 
//create new object to handle the loading:
var $my_test = createMovieClipLoaderObject("my_test");
 
//create empty movie clip to use as container for jpg:
_root.createEmptyMovieClip("bg_mc", _root.getNextHighestDepth());
 
// Now load the file into target mc
$my_test.loadClip("tile1.jpg", _root.bg_mc);
 
//when the file is completely loaded, duplicate the mc:
$my_test.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip){
	duplicateMovieClip(target_mc, "bg", _root.getNextHighestDepth()); 
	
};//end onLoad init
 
==========================
Actionscript for testing button:
 
testbutton.onRelease = function(){
	trace("duplicate x is: " + _level1.bg._x);
};
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