# duplicateMovieClip

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip/199005
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 30, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip/199005 "2006-08-30T13:10:51Z")
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### Author: ![FlashDan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df788c/32.png) [@FlashDan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/FlashDan)
#### Post date: [August 30, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicatemovieclip/199005/1 "2006-08-30T13:10:51Z")

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Hey guys,

This is my first post here at your great looking forum. I’ve been using [Kirupa.com](http://Kirupa.com) for some time now.

I’m having trouble with the duplicateMovieClip function. What i’m tring to do is drop a symbol each time the mouse click. **I’ve got this working fine with the below code** -

```auto
_root.hit1.onPress = function() {
    i++;
    
    _root.bull.duplicateMovieClip("bulletNew", i);
    if (i == 10) {
        i = 0;
    }
}

```

What I’m having trouble with is this just seems to place the symbols at the top most layer. What I want to have is have these duplicate symbols go into a symbol or something. So as I can change the \_x and \_y location of all these symbols at the same time.

Any ideas???

Thanks in advance,

-Dan 🙂