# Editing duplicated mcs
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/editing-duplicated-mcs/8550
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [November 23, 2002, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/editing-duplicated-mcs/8550 "2002-11-23T15:44:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@andr\_in](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/andr_in)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2002, 3:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/editing-duplicated-mcs/8550/1 "2002-11-23T15:44:33Z")
I use duplicateMovieClip(\_root.circle, “ball”+d, d)
now how can I edit all of these duplicated mcs?
like I want to make the width of the 15th of them “555” or sth… :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2002, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/editing-duplicated-mcs/8550/2 "2002-11-23T16:01:50Z")
Hey syko,
I believe you would simply use \_root.ball15 to target that movie. When you are duplicate the movie “circle”, you are giving the duplicated movie the name ball + d; where d is the number of the duplicated movie clip. The first movie clip would be ball1 while the 583rd movie clip would be ball583.
Does this help?
Cheers!
Kirupa :elderly:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2002, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/editing-duplicated-mcs/8550/3 "2002-11-23T17:17:16Z")
I knew that but It would be pain in the ass to edit all of them one by one if there are hundreds… maybe thousands of them… 😛
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2002, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/editing-duplicated-mcs/8550/4 "2002-11-23T20:59:40Z")
What _exactly_ are you trying to do with this? You say it would be annoying to do it for ‘thousands’ of them, but are you just trying to change the width of every single one or what?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2002, 9:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/editing-duplicated-mcs/8550/5 "2002-11-23T21:16:15Z")
like… the mcs are moving and their scale depends on their y position. Or something like that…
PPFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
this is so easy! Why ddn’t I think of this before!!! :P:P
sorry for bothering you guys…
Why didn’t I just place a code on the mc… it duplicates the actions as well… 😛
thanx anyway :P:P
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2002, 9:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/editing-duplicated-mcs/8550/6 "2002-11-23T21:17:58Z")
LOL, or you could have just used a code in the frame that tells off them to scale on position instead of ball#.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2002, 4:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/editing-duplicated-mcs/8550/7 "2002-11-24T04:28:45Z")
Well, it is a perfect place to use an array here. You duplicate the clip,
😱 😱 [size=4]You didn’t specify if you used F5 or FMX!!! :superEvil: [/size]
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2002, 4:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/editing-duplicated-mcs/8550/8 "2002-11-24T04:30:04Z")
Da Da DUMMMMMM!!!
Eilsoe: If you read this, make that super evil smiley real soon, I think Ilyas really needs it…lol.