# Duplicate movie one at a time

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-movie-one-at-a-time/134707
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**Created:** [January 20, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-movie-one-at-a-time/134707 "2005-01-20T19:38:56Z")
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### Author: ![macneilslt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aeb1de/32.png) [@macneilslt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/macneilslt)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicate-movie-one-at-a-time/134707/1 "2005-01-20T19:38:56Z")

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I’m using

```auto

numButtons = 20;
space = button._width+5;
for (i=1; i<numButtons; i++) {
	button.duplicateMovieClip("button"+i, i);
	this["button"+i]._x = this["button"+i]._x+(i*space);
}

```

to duplicate some buttons, I’ve read the tutorial for using ‘while’ to duplicate movieclips, instead of ‘for’, it works in mx, but not mx04, anyone know how to do it with mx04?