# Error in code, please help
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-code-please-help/118284
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 4, 2004, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-code-please-help/118284 "2004-08-04T07:44:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@flufilms](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flufilms)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-code-please-help/118284/1 "2004-08-04T07:44:02Z")
[font=Arial]this.onPress = function(){
if(this.\_name == “myClip”){
counter++;
this.duplicateMovieClip(“myClip” + counter, counter);
}else{
this.startDrag();
}
}
this.onRelease = function(){
stopDrag();
}[/font]
I get two errors:
Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 1: Statement must appear within on/onClipEvent handler
this.onPress = function(){
Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 9: Statement must appear within on/onClipEvent handler
this.onRelease = function(){
Anyone know what I might be doing wrong? I’m placing the code on the symbol-movie that I want to duplicate and haven’t added any other script
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### Author:  [@Ubik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ubik)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 8:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-code-please-help/118284/2 "2004-08-04T08:10:49Z")
i suppose you have this code on a movieclip, so you have to use onClipEvent, something like this
```auto
onClipEvent (enterframe){
this.onPress = function(){
if(this._name == "myClip"){
counter++;
this.duplicateMovieClip("myClip" + counter, counter);
}else{
this.startDrag();
}
}
this.onRelease = function(){
stopDrag();
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@flufilms](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/flufilms)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-code-please-help/118284/3 "2004-08-04T08:15:01Z")
Thank you so much
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### Author:  [@Ubik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ubik)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-code-please-help/118284/4 "2004-08-04T08:15:49Z")
No problem 🙂
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### Author:  [@Ubik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ubik)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 10:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-code-please-help/118284/5 "2004-08-04T10:39:11Z")
I got it working just if you click on the square, i tried something with Key.isDown to use the del key but it won’t work, so here’s the code
```auto
onClipEvent (load){
this.onPress = function(){
if(this._name == "myClip"){
counter++;
this.duplicateMovieClip("myClip" +counter, counter);
trace("myClip"+counter)}else{
this.startDrag();
this.onPress=function(){
this.removeMovieClip()
}
}
}
this.onRelease = function(){
stopDrag();
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@pom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pom)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 1:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-code-please-help/118284/6 "2004-08-04T13:30:59Z")
UBIK \>\> There’s no point using dynamic event handlers if you’re going to put them inside static event handlers 🙂
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### Author:  [@Ubik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ubik)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-code-please-help/118284/7 "2004-08-04T13:34:54Z")
eeh,so what would it look like? still trying to learn this d\*mn language :ne:
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### Author:  [@pom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pom)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-code-please-help/118284/8 "2004-08-04T14:54:40Z")
You could either write directly on the clip on(press) {…} or put the clip.onPress = function () {…} declaration in the main timeline 🙂
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/tricks/dynamicevent.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/tricks/dynamicevent.htm)
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### Author:  [@bobdoe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bobdoe)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2004, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-code-please-help/118284/9 "2004-08-04T16:24:13Z")
haha, yeh the code posted above seems a little redundant.
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### Author:  [@Ubik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ubik)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2004, 7:54am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/error-in-code-please-help/118284/10 "2004-08-05T07:54:50Z")
> You could either write directly on the clip on(press) {…} or put the clip.onPress = function () {…} declaration in the main timeline
ok, i understand ! et merde…[SIZE=1](juste pour le plaisir, i can put bad words in french, it won’t filter :P) [/SIZE] my english understanding isn’t that good :beam:
Thanks