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Add MovieClips to stage

I'm trying to display a bunch of movie clips on the screen. I know I could just place them there, define their property name, and work with them in the code, but I have to place 100 of them, so it would be much easier to do it in the code. I'm working in AS3 with the Flash IDE.

Jakob_E

Hi,

It looks like you need a loop - like:

// Array referencing your movie clips
var clips:Array=[mc001, mc002, mc003, ...., mc100]

// Loop adding the clips
for(var i:int=0; i<clips.length; ++i){
addChild(clip[i])
}

To give you a better answer pleaser try to elaborate on what you want done,
how you create your movie clips (script/stage/library or loaded) etc.

Best,
Jakob E

walker6o9

ASKER

I have a movie clip called balloon. To place them on the stage, I just dragged them onto the stage from the library, then called then balloon1_mc, balloon2_mc, etc. I'd like to place them all on the stage without doing that so that I can reference them in my code later on, and move them around, etc.

walker6o9

ASKER

So basically, this is how I'm adding one movie clip to the stage.

var balloon_mc1 = new balloon();
this.addChild(balloon_mc1);

How do I do this for 100 of these movie clips, without typing
var balloon_mc1 = new balloon();
this.addChild(balloon_mc1);

var balloon_mc2 = new balloon();
this.addChild(balloon_mc2);

var balloon_mc3 = new balloon();
this.addChild(balloon_mc3);

etc, etc

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Jakob_E

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