Drawing api question

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Hi,

Any tutorials I see on the drawing api usually go like this.


_root.createEmptyMovieClip("draw", 1);[COLOR=black][COLOR=black]
draw.moveTo(...);
draw.lineTo(...);[/COLOR][/COLOR]

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This works great, but when I try to use the drawing API on a movie clip that was not created with createEmptyMovieClip, it doesn’t work. This is the code I use:

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my_mc.duplicateMovieClip("my_mc1", this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x:20, _y:20}); 
my_mc1.moveTo(...);
my_mc1.lineTo(...);

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Any ideas? Is my usage wrong? I’m still new to flash.

Thanks.
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