# Dupicating Movieclip & positioning them?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dupicating-movieclip-positioning-them/35362
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [November 13, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dupicating-movieclip-positioning-them/35362 "2003-11-13T02:57:24Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@Whydoyouwork](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Whydoyouwork)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dupicating-movieclip-positioning-them/35362/1 "2003-11-13T02:57:24Z")
What I’m trying to do, is duplicate a movie clip an x amount of times, based on a variable loaded externally, not the problem though, got that working fine.
My problem comes in while I’m trying to reposition the duplicated movies, to line up in a stacked order.
It duplicates the movie the number of times I need it, but when trying to call upon the movie clip, which is the a=this[“a”+i]; script, nothing happens, the clips don’t get repositioned.
If anyone can help me out, it’d be much apreciated.
Heres the code;
onClipEvent (load) {
x = 0;
y = 1;
space = 1;
num = 21;
stat = 1;
var Work = new LoadVars();
Work.load(“portfolio.txt”, this.Work);
Work.onLoad = function(loaded) {
if (loaded) {
\_parent.t = "PHP loaded just fine\results = "+Work.num\_results;
for (i=2; (i-1)\<=Work.num\_results; i++) {
a1.duplicateMovieClip(“a”+i, i);
a = this[“a”+i];
// Math to space out icons
if (x\<10) {
x++;
} else {
y++;
x = 1;
}
a.\_y = a1.\_y+a1.\_height_y;
a.\_x = a1.\_x+a1.\_width_x;
a.\_visible = true;
a.ty = Work.TYPE[i-2];
a.ti = Work.TITLE[i-2];
a.id = Work.ID[i-2];
}
}
};
}
Heres the open source;
[http://www.whydoyouwork.com/recentf...ork\_Dynamic.zip](http://www.whydoyouwork.com/recentf...ork_Dynamic.zip)
[edited at 11.55am central time by whydoyouwork]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 13, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dupicating-movieclip-positioning-them/35362/2 "2003-11-13T16:46:05Z")
It’s hard to help if you don’t tell us what’s happening :-
Anyway, you can have a look at the grid tutorial, it might help 🙂