# programming

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## [XML Hyperlink with thumbnail slideshow](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-hyperlink-with-thumbnail-slideshow/207568)

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**Author:** [@setsta](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/setsta)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 19, 2006, 8:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/xml-hyperlink-with-thumbnail-slideshow/207568 "2006-11-19T08:57:59Z")

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Hi, I am new to both Flash and Kirupa. As an introduction to flash I decided to complete the thumbnail slideshow tutorial and all is good. I am now trying to have an XML node displau as a hyperlinkon the slide show. I…

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## [Security of files](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/security-of-files/207564)

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**Author:** [@Multi\_Task](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Multi_Task)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 19, 2006, 7:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/security-of-files/207564 "2006-11-19T07:09:43Z")

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Hey yall, I am making a flash website for a record company and am interested in the security of MP3 files that will be loaded into a empty movie clip "sound\_mc" from an XML file. I want this feature on the site so …

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## [A little help on snowfall method!](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-little-help-on-snowfall-method/207562)

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**Author:** [@Gurpinder\_Singh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gurpinder_Singh)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 19, 2006, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-little-help-on-snowfall-method/207562 "2006-11-19T06:28:43Z")

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I used the snow fall method (FROM THIS SITE) to make a scene with snow falling and fog. the problem is that if I make the fog flow, then the snow fall restarts after last frame of fog (clouds layer). but I want to make s…

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## [Flash POP Up window](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-pop-up-window/207561)

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**Author:** [@Dave](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Dave)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 19, 2006, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-pop-up-window/207561 "2006-11-19T05:19:07Z")

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Hey guys, I did this tutorial from the site: http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/centered\_popup\_window.htm The only problem is I have a base movie that is using loadMovie to load another swf which is the one using…

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## [Invasion](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/invasion/207559)

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**Author:** [@Lou](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Lou)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 19, 2006, 3:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/invasion/207559 "2006-11-19T03:57:47Z")

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Do you think this is worth finishing? Be honest. I wont hate you. (sry for the popups on the hosting site) http://img80.imageshack.us/my.php?image=invasioniy0.swf

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## [How to make Image Scroller](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-image-scroller/207554)

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**Author:** [@Dux](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Dux)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 19, 2006, 12:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-make-image-scroller/207554 "2006-11-19T00:18:15Z")

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i need to make a an image scroller within a screen ,id know how to make the scroller itself but id like instead of the images being stored within the flash file, to be referenced outside of it so there easier to change/a…

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## [Stacking thumbnails in from XML in flash?](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stacking-thumbnails-in-from-xml-in-flash/207553)

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**Author:** [@foot01](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/foot01)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 19, 2006, 12:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stacking-thumbnails-in-from-xml-in-flash/207553 "2006-11-19T00:17:49Z")

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I have this simple xml photogallery script. I have 6 thumbnails and want to stack them 2 thumbnails in each row - giving me a stack of three rows (two thumbnails in each row). Can somebody tell me how I can do this? I'…

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## [Collapsable menu - PLEASE HELP](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/collapsable-menu-please-help/207552)

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**Author:** [@outroLugar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/outroLugar)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/collapsable-menu-please-help/207552 "2006-11-18T21:53:04Z")

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I found a file to manipulate for my collapsible menu and it works great. You get to see the sub menu you click on a main nav piece and if you click on another one, the first one collapses and the one you click opens up.…

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## [Widths (Stage, Movie, Player)](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/widths-stage-movie-player/207550)

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**Author:** [@MSinclair](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/MSinclair)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/widths-stage-movie-player/207550 "2006-11-18T21:36:08Z")

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I would like to be able to detect the width of the Stage (or player, movie, etc) at runtime without having to (a) resize the stage, or (b) set the scale mode to "noScale". Is this possible? It seems like you would be a…

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## [Movie ok on testing but not when published](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-ok-on-testing-but-not-when-published/207548)

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**Author:** [@axew3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/axew3)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-ok-on-testing-but-not-when-published/207548 "2006-11-18T21:24:46Z")

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hi all, i have finish a little movie, so i've test it with Flash preview and all seem to be ok, but when i publish and open it with explorer or other browser, the movie isn't reproduced at all: expecially the song isn't …

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## [How to add flash movie controls?](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-add-flash-movie-controls/207544)

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**Author:** [@liner986](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/liner986)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-add-flash-movie-controls/207544 "2006-11-18T20:11:01Z")

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Hey guys, I have made this long flash stickman movie and I want to add complex controls to it e.g. slow motion, forward, rewind, play speed 0.5, 1, 2 and etc... . Does anyone know any tutorials or scripts for these kin…

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## [Flash and lightbox](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-lightbox/207542)

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**Author:** [@brndn](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/brndn)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 7:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-and-lightbox/207542 "2006-11-18T19:52:37Z")

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Hi all just ran into a small glitch with this lightbox feature. I have some flash objects on the page and when the lightbox is activated, and you rollover a flash object they flicker into the foreground. Have forced th…

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## [AS3 root access](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-root-access/207536)

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**Author:** [@ghjr](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ghjr)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as3-root-access/207536 "2006-11-18T18:31:04Z")

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In one of senocular's AS3 tips (http://www.kirupa.com/forum/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=9) he mentioned using a TopLevel class which would then be extending by the document class to create "global" root access. Instead …

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## [Scrolling panorama](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-panorama/207535)

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**Author:** [@roachford](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/roachford)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scrolling-panorama/207535 "2006-11-18T18:30:04Z")

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Hi. First of all, I am a new user of Flash, stumbling through really. What I need to find out is if anybody know how to put one of those scrolling panorama's in their flas site?? The kind that loops round when you dr…

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## ["Stretch" Timeline?](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stretch-timeline/207533)

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**Author:** [@woodman650](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/woodman650)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stretch-timeline/207533 "2006-11-18T17:58:37Z")

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Hey all, I wondered if there was a way to stretch a timeline to make a movieclip play longer/slower, without having to go in and move key frames one by one? thanks!

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## [Flash 8 popups](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-8-popups/207530)

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**Author:** [@rusty27851](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rusty27851)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-8-popups/207530 "2006-11-18T17:05:13Z")

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I'm trying to make some links in a full flash site done in flash 8 pop up in new html windows at a set size. My code works fine if I publish to older versions of flash, but not to version 8. I think they changed somethin…

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## [\[PHP\] MySQL Results Problems](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-mysql-results-problems/207526)

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**Author:** [@Esherido](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Esherido)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-mysql-results-problems/207526 "2006-11-18T15:55:45Z")

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I'm having some problems with MySQL and PHP results. I'm doing a simple query: SELECT \* FROM ----------- ORDER BY id. But when I get the result, the "id" isn't matching the data from the rest of the columns. Does anyone …

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## [Using the same mask for 2 movieclips](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-same-mask-for-2-movieclips/207522)

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**Author:** [@Ayman](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ayman)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 2:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-the-same-mask-for-2-movieclips/207522 "2006-11-18T14:40:13Z")

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Is there a way to use the same movieclip as a mask for 2 other movieclips?? Like this: shadow1.setMask(shadowMask) shadow2.setMask(shadowMask) Ofcourse applying the above directly, will only apply the mask to shado…

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## [PHP and Text Files ^^](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-and-text-files/207521)

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**Author:** [@Futureness](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Futureness)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/php-and-text-files/207521 "2006-11-18T13:36:27Z")

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Hey guys, Just wondering how i could make it so that php could save about 50 variables in 1 txt file, and then how i could make php read the txt file and place the data into a the variables again... I know its possible…

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## [Scale images](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scale-images/207510)

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**Author:** [@stebentje](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/stebentje)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 10:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/scale-images/207510 "2006-11-18T10:56:31Z")

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Hello, Is it possible when I click on a thumbnail that the thumbnail scales to 100% of the picture (in an motion scale?), centered in the movie, and when I click again on the large picture that the picture re-scales to…

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## [Help with Variables and If, Then statements](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-variables-and-if-then-statements/207499)

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**Author:** [@dfhdesign](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dfhdesign)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 5:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-variables-and-if-then-statements/207499 "2006-11-18T05:59:05Z")

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I have two movie clips on my main timeline. Inside each movie clip are the frame labels, "foreground" and "background". On the foreground state, an image moves to the foreground of the viewable area by use of a motion t…

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## [Please help with photo gallery tutorial...It's driving me crazy!](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-with-photo-gallery-tutorial-its-driving-me-crazy/207496)

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**Author:** [@jingato](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jingato)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 4:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/please-help-with-photo-gallery-tutorial-its-driving-me-crazy/207496 "2006-11-18T04:03:58Z")

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Hi. I recently made a photo gallery following this tutorial http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml\_flash\_photogallery.htm I have the gallery in a mc in my flash document. The gallery itself works fine. What I am tr…

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## [\[How to\] Flash MX 8](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-flash-mx-8/207494)

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**Author:** [@AlejandroX](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AlejandroX)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-flash-mx-8/207494 "2006-11-18T03:24:41Z")

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Alrite..I'm working on a project...I wanna know if someone is really good at this...I know I suck at this..but I am willing to learn a lot... How do we make a sprite move (so people can control it using the keyboard) ?…

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## [ASP Mail Form, (displaying values for Checkboxes)](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asp-mail-form-displaying-values-for-checkboxes/207489)

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**Author:** [@RussianBeer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RussianBeer)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/asp-mail-form-displaying-values-for-checkboxes/207489 "2006-11-18T02:32:39Z")

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Okay, I have the form working: A person fils out a form on a website (collegereq.asp) which calls on an asp script(collegereqsubmit.asp), this then creates a page to display to the user of what he filled out and sends an…

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## [MySQL error 1062: Duplicate Entry](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mysql-error-1062-duplicate-entry/207488)

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**Author:** [@phase101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/phase101)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mysql-error-1062-duplicate-entry/207488 "2006-11-18T01:59:10Z")

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Hey everyone, I was working on an online registration section of a cilents website. Everthing was working fine till I got this error message: MySQL error 1062: Duplicate Entry '4428' for key 1 This is really messing…

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## [MP3 Crazy](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mp3-crazy/207485)

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**Author:** [@Multi\_Task](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Multi_Task)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 1:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/mp3-crazy/207485 "2006-11-18T01:33:15Z")

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I have made an MP3 Player driven by XML and everything works fine and dandy, previous button, next, stop play volume all that works great. I was interested in playing with the idea of having icons and on (release) woul…

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## [Calling object names and variables dynamicly?](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-object-names-and-variables-dynamicly/207481)

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**Author:** [@DoktorAce](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DoktorAce)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 18, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-object-names-and-variables-dynamicly/207481 "2006-11-18T00:08:02Z")

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Im kind of new to flash, and Im having trouble figuring out how to do this. Say I have some sort of user-input that will give me a number, for example the number 3. Then I want to call one of many movieClips i've previ…

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## [3d: tweaking movieclips, text and images](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/3d-tweaking-movieclips-text-and-images/207477)

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**Author:** [@fr\_ode](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fr_ode)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 17, 2006, 10:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/3d-tweaking-movieclips-text-and-images/207477 "2006-11-17T22:36:54Z")

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Hmm... I'm not sure if this is even possible, but here we go: I'm working on a website. It's really a basic portfolio-site containing a profile, some news and a few photogalleries. The idea is to load images and text o…

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## [Movie clip coordinates](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-coordinates/207474)

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**Author:** [@seaRocks](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/seaRocks)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 17, 2006, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-coordinates/207474 "2006-11-17T22:18:35Z")

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I am trying to get a movie clip - nested inside another movie clip on the stage - to match the x, y coordinates of the mouse. Attached is an example file both in Flash 8 and MX2004 formats. I can get the drag to occur,…

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## [Removing Dynamic Movie Clips](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/removing-dynamic-movie-clips/207472)

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**Author:** [@nburlington](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nburlington)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [November 17, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/removing-dynamic-movie-clips/207472 "2006-11-17T21:49:04Z")

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If i attach 50 movie clips to content\_mc. and then i run another function where i want to: clear all of the attached movie clips on content\_mc repopulate content\_mc with new movie clips how do i clear content\_mc? …

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