# Duplicating Movie clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip/184195>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 3, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip/184195 "2006-04-03T06:40:01Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Jimmy\_James](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e47c2d/32.png) [@Jimmy\_James](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jimmy_James)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 6:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip/184195/1 "2006-04-03T06:40:01Z")

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The below script has a duplicate movieclip in it yet it does not seem to be working ? Can anyone tell me why thanks:

on (release) {  
//font = \_root.extras.font\_cb.getValue();  
font = font\_cb.getValue();  
\_global.text = input;

//if (\_root.inputbox.text != “” ) {

count++;  
duplicateMovieClip(\_root.extras.textmovie,“textmovie”+count,count+12);  
this[“textmovie”+count].onPress = function() {  
this.startDrag();  
this.dragging = true;

};

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**Author:** ![B\_L\_U\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@B\_L\_U\_E](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/B_L_U_E)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip/184195/2 "2006-04-03T16:24:03Z")

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Dunno if its just a typo, but theres an unnecessary space here;  
duplicateMovieClip(\_root.extras.textmovie,"**[COLOR=“Red”]textmov ie[/COLOR]**"+count,count+12);

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**Author:** ![stringy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@stringy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/stringy)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip/184195/3 "2006-04-03T16:43:24Z")

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you may also need to define count on the timeline if you are using 2004+.

Unless your button is located on the \_root.extras timeline you need

```auto
_root.extras["textmovie"+count].onPress = function() {}

```

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**Author:** ![gvozden](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/gvozden/32/1084_2.png) [@gvozden](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gvozden)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip/184195/4 "2006-04-03T16:59:52Z")

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it will always address to the last count value …

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**Author:** ![B\_L\_U\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@B\_L\_U\_E](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/B_L_U_E)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2006, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip/184195/5 "2006-04-03T23:18:07Z")

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> [@gvozden](#):
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> it will always address to the last count value …

Really? Even for the increment command ++? I remember running into problems until I initiated it with var num = 0;

EDIT; Just tested it, it _does_ have to be given an initial value before incrementing

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**Author:** ![gvozden](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/gvozden/32/1084_2.png) [@gvozden](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gvozden)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 5:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip/184195/6 "2006-04-04T05:05:16Z")

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creating MovieClips will pass ok