[Flash 8] DuplicateMovieClip positioning

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I am having a problem that seems similar to the one shown here: http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=215026

**The Scenario: **I started trying to learn Flash last week, and I feel like I’ve covered most of the basics. Pushing forward, I’ve been giving myself little tasks that I’ll eventually combine into a larger project. Right now, I want to mouseover an object, and have a number of movie clips appear in a circle around it. So far, I have a test object to hover over, and a test clip to duplicate.

The Code: I only want this to happen once, so I’m using a global variable to determine if it’s already happened, which is set to 0 when the swf loads. The Actionscript is on the icon clip.


this.onRollOver= function(){
    if (circleMade == 0) {
// Number of clips to duplicate
        var nItems = 5;
// Radius of circle
        var circleRad = 45;
        for (i=0;i<5;i++){
           var currentMenuButton = "roundMenuButton" + i;
           duplicateMovieClip (_root.roundMenuButton, currentMenuButton, _root.getNextHighestDepth());
// Determine angle of rotation for current clip
           var nAngle = ( 360 / nItems ) * (1 + i);
// Set X and Y based on rotation and radius
           var nX = circleRad * Math.cos(nAngle);
           var nY = circleRad * Math.sin(nAngle);
           currentMenuButton._x =  nX;
           currentMenuButton._y =  nY;
        }
    }
    else {}
    _global.circleMade = 1;
}
}

The Problem: As you can see here (http://www.fishspeaker.com/motion/flashtest/index3.html), hovering over the center icon seems to do nothing . . . but wait! The small silver ball is indeed being duplicated, just in place. Checking the debug Object List confirms this - what am I doing wrong with the positioning?

Feel free to ignore the window that pops up when the icon is clicked - that’s another project entirely.