# Adding Multiple children Enter Stage

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-multiple-children-enter-stage/330913>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 6, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-multiple-children-enter-stage/330913 "2013-04-06T20:27:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![na\_il](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@na\_il](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/na_il)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2013, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/adding-multiple-children-enter-stage/330913/1 "2013-04-06T20:27:03Z")

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I want to add a child at every grid point, I’m stumped how can I create a grid with the array by adding a child at every point? Pretty much replace the graphic circles with the hitArray children.

here is the code:

```auto

var bWidth:Number = stage.stageWidth;
var bHeight:Number = stage.stageHeight;

var grid:Number = 20; // Size of the grid and number of lattice points in each direction
var dotsWide:Number = Math.ceil(bWidth/grid) - 1;
var dotsHigh:Number = Math.ceil(bHeight/grid) - 1;

var board:Sprite = new Sprite();
stage.addChild(board);
//board.addChild(myPoint);

//Array to hold the target instances, the drop instances,
var hitArray:Array = new Array();
for (var k:int = 0; k < 1000; k++) {
    hitArray[k] = new MovieClip();
    hitArray[k].name = "target" + k;
    addChild(hitArray[k]);
    hitArray[k].x = ??;
    hitArray[k].y = ??;
}

var dropArray:Array = new Array(drop1,drop2,drop3);
var positionsArray:Array = new Array();

// A bunch of circles to represent lattice points but instead want the child
board.graphics.beginFill(0x000000);
for (var l=1; l<=dotsHigh; l++) {
    for (var j=1; j<=dotsWide; j++) {
        board.graphics.drawCircle(j*grid,l*grid,3);
    }
}
board.graphics.endFill();

```