# Attachmovie clip help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attachmovie-clip-help/330790>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 16, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attachmovie-clip-help/330790 "2013-03-16T16:33:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![enciel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e0b2c6/32.png) [@enciel](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/enciel)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2013, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/attachmovie-clip-help/330790/1 "2013-03-16T16:33:15Z")

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Hi!I need help with this. I’ve been pulling my hair out on this. What I dreamed to do:

• Be able to attachmovie on stage multiple times with one movieclip. (ex. i called symbol1 but clicking button1, when i click button1, i get another symbol1 on stage and so on)

• Have 1 button on stage that control the flipping of these items. 1st button flips the last movie clip I clicked on stage

• Have this movieclips be draggable.What I wanted to do is I have multiple movieclips and I call them by using attachmovie option. So when I click a button I call that movieclip into stage.When I click that button I want to be able to create multiple movieclips to appear on stage. Is it possible on AS2?

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Somehow I was able to make this work BUT I was only able to make it work if the movieclip is already on stage and I have added instance name on it. When I try having an attachedmovie clip called on stage, the flip button does not work. so far this is how I did for the attachmovie:

on (release) { \_root.attachMovie(“flipbed1”,“flipbed1”, this.getNextHighestDepth(), {\_x:100, \_y:100}) }

- so this one calls out flipbed1 movieclip on stage and in the frame this is what I added:

var numFlipbed\_LastClicked:String=none;  
flipbed1.onPress=function(){ numFlipbed\_LastClicked = flipbed1;  
}

buttonMC.onPress = function()  
{ \_root.numFlipbed\_LastClicked.\_xscale= -100; };

but nothing happens. I can’t even click on the movieclip attached.

Probably maybe because instance name is different with linkage id but I am new at this so any help is appreciated