# duplicateMovieClip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip/179190>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 17, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip/179190 "2006-02-17T13:31:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Project004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Project004](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Project004)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip/179190/1 "2006-02-17T13:31:57Z")

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newbie question:

I’m trying to create an xml menu and I’m duplicating the buttons like this

```
for (var i = 0; i&lt;noofsongs; i++) {
    duplicateMovieClip("btn", "btn"+i,10);
    btn0._x=500;
}

```

My question is how do i get at my button instances? I can refer to this first button as btn0 but when i use for example

“btn”+i.\_x=500 it doesn’t like it… help anyone?

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**Author:** ![Project004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Project004](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Project004)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip/179190/2 "2006-06-06T18:52:59Z")

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i now (almost) understand about arrays and properties of objects, it has been a struggle but I am enjoying it, when I check over and read the posts i made I have learnt a lot - thx again 😉