# Duplicate movie clip and setInterval

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-movie-clip-and-setinterval/96562>\
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**Created:** [December 10, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-movie-clip-and-setinterval/96562 "2003-12-10T22:49:28Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 10:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-movie-clip-and-setinterval/96562/1 "2003-12-10T22:49:28Z")

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Ok, I have a simple duplicate movie clip for loop, but I want the duplication of the movie clip to be delayed by a setInterval. This is what I have so far:[AS]myNumber = 10;  
for (count=0; count\<myNumber; count++) {  
myClip.duplicateMovieClip(“myClip”+count, count);  
this[“myClip”+count].clipText.text = count;  
this[“myClip”+count].\_x = (this[“myClip”+count].\_width+2)\*count;  
}[/AS]

works fine.  
How could I add a setInterval to delay that script?

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**Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-movie-clip-and-setinterval/96562/2 "2003-12-12T12:18:30Z")

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Try this:

```auto

delay = 1
count=0
duplicateMC = function(){
myClip.duplicateMovieClip("myClip"+count, count);
this["myClip"+count].clipText.text = count;
this["myClip"+count]._x = (this["myClip"+count]._width+2)*count;
if(count==10) clearInterval(dupli);
count++
}
dupli = setInterval(duplicateMC,delay*1000)

```