Dupplicate a MovieClip and its Content

programming flash
1

I wonder if there’s a way to duplicate a MovieClip created dynamicaly and its content.

For example:

this.createEmptyMovieClip(“Photo”, 1);

Photo.loadMovie(“image.jpg”);

Photo.duplicateMovieClip(“Photo2”, 2);

This code does not duplicate the content but only an empty MovieClip.
But it works if instead of creating the empty MovieClip Photo, i create it by the hand in Flash and put the image in it.

Can someone tell me if it’s possible to do that in actionscript?

Thank you in advance,
Christophe

2

hi,

Do u want several MCs with the same image on them?
Because if that’s the case u could do the duplications and
load (or attach) the imaage onto all of them with a ‘for’ loop.

MaxOfPhotos = 2;
this.createEmptyMovieClip("Photo1", 1);
Photo1.duplicateMovieClip("Photo2", 2);
for (var i = 0; i < MaxOfPhotos; i++) {
	theMovieClip = eval("Photo"+i);
	theMovieClip.loadMovie("image.jpg");
}

Cheers

SHO

Ps.: haven’t tested it!

3

But if you do that, does each clip load its own version of the picture or do they load it once for all. Because if they all load the picture… :-\

4

Yes, i agree with you ilyaslamasse.

What i try to do is a “simple” cross-fading transition between two image in two MovieClip.
So what i think at first was to duplicate the original MovieClip and put the new one behind it. And then i can change the _alpha to make the cross-fading from the old image to the new one.

Now i’m trying to make the effects in a different way:
I have two MovieClips. I swap their _Level of Depth before
loading the new image in the MovieClip at the top of the other.

for the moment, i have that code:

//initialization
photo_nb = 0;

//code on a button(this in the code)
if (cible == Photo1 && this.nb != photo_nb) {
trace(Photo1._alpha);
trace(Photo1._level);
cible = _root[“Photo2”];
Photo2._alpha = 0;
Photo2.swapDepths(cible);
trace(Photo1._alpha);
trace(Photo1._level);
pic = “images/clio_0” + this.nb + “.jpg”;
cible.loadMovie(pic);
photo_nb = this.nb;
}
else if (cible == Photo2 && this.nb != photo_nb) {
trace(Photo2._alpha);
cible = _root[“Photo1”];
Photo1._alpha = 0;
Photo1.swapDepths(cible);
trace(Photo2._alpha);
pic = “images/clio_0” + this.nb + “.jpg”;
cible.loadMovie(pic);
photo_nb = this.nb;
}

This code doesn’t make the swapDepths now because i need
to change the (cible) to a number.

Thanks for the comments,
Christophe

5

I made it! Phew… :slight_smile:

Here is the new code for the button:

function Release() {
if (cible == Photo1 && this.nb != photo_nb) {
cible = _root[“Photo2”];
Photo2._alpha = 0;
Photo2.swapDepths(Photo1);
}
else if (cible == Photo2 && this.nb != photo_nb) {
cible = _root[“Photo1”];
Photo1._alpha = 0;
Photo1.swapDepths(Photo2);
}
pic = “images/clio_0” + this.nb + “.jpg”;
cible.loadMovie(pic);
photo_nb = this.nb;
}

I can give explanations for the one who don’t understand some variables…