I have a movie that dynamically builds a vertical stack of movie clips (about 80 px tall with some space in between). This stack of mcs represents events loaded from a database. Whenever the number of records exceeds 218, strange things start happening. See attached images. Part of the list begins to become obscured. The amount of “obscuring” seems to correspond to the number of records over 218.
I’m guessing this is either a “movie clip size limit” issue or something to do with my mask (these buttons are under a mask to emulate “pages”).
Please, if someone can demystify this for me, I will be elated.
The Flash stage has a width and height restriction. My suggestion would be to have any items that are not visible on-screen to have a fixed y position just off the screen, and then move them in when necessary. In this way, you will avoid having a movieclip or similar that is several thousand px tall, which Flash tends to like less 
Hi,
You might have 218 now, then 2018 then 20018 some day. Are you going to unnecessarily load all of them.
Optimize your code and display as many movieclips as required only. Not only flash but any other application would slow down if you program 218 on screen and calculate but not display them.
Make just 10 or so and make a scrollable movieclip loop. Just change the dynamic data in them on the fly.
Ok, it is a limit then. And I agree with excogitator’s point, this is a bad practice. I will look into splitting up this process or doing something like excogitator’s suggestion… If you have time, could you explain a bit more about what you mean by “scrollable movieclip loop”?
