# Duplication dilemma

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplication-dilemma/11108>\
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**Created:** [January 12, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplication-dilemma/11108 "2003-01-12T13:13:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![javadi82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3be4f8/32.png) [@javadi82](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/javadi82)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 1:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplication-dilemma/11108/1 "2003-01-12T13:13:28Z")

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i shall straight away start off with the question.

Let us say I have a movie “a” with a textbox “b” whose variable I name as “label”.

Now when I create a duplicate movie , I want to change the text on the textbox “b” using the variable name “label”.

I have tried with the syntax  
a[“label”] =“New Label” to change the text on the textbox, but that did not work!

I have also tried everything in the FLASH help but nothing WORKS!

To summarize, could you please tell me how I could change the text of a textbox on a duplicate movie clip (the original movie clip has a textbox )

please do reply with only the syntax for FLASH 5

bye  
susheel.j

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplication-dilemma/11108/2 "2003-01-12T13:17:02Z")

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a is your original, you need to use the duplicate movie name

a.duplicateMovieClip(“a2”,1);  
a2.label = “new label”;