I realize there are related threads to moviclip duplication, and I’ve been studying them, but so far i still haven’t been able to answer my question and am tearing out my hair!
—I am making a program that allows the user to drag a movieclip onto a grid, making a pattern of their choice with duplicates of that clip. I made an grid to which the movieclip duplicates can “snap” to. I can now drag one copy of the original movieclip and “snap” it to the grid. That part is at least working great.
My problem that I can only drag and drop [COLOR=“Red”]one copy of the original movieclip.[/COLOR]
[COLOR=“red”]I want to be able to drag a new duplicate movieclip everytime I drag and drop the original movieclip, [/COLOR]creating multiple copies of the original clip.
—here’s my code:
I have a movieclip with code that tells it to “snap” to my grid (this part is working great!). Inside that movieclip there is a button with the following:
on (press) {
[COLOR=“DimGray”]//when dragging is true, tells the movieclip to “snap” to the grid.[/COLOR]
dragging = true;
}
on (release, releaseOutside) {
dragging = false;
[COLOR=“Gray”] //add 1 to the currentclip variable so that the new movieclip will have a new name and depth[/COLOR]
currentClip = currentClip + 1;
trace(currentClip);
[COLOR=“Gray”]//make a duplicate of the movieclip that is being dragged[/COLOR]
purple_mc.duplicateMovieClip(“newpurple” + currentClip, currentClip)
}
sorry for the rather long post, but any help would be very much appreciated.
thanks!
