# Goin CRAZY! duplicateMoveClip and textField

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/goin-crazy-duplicatemoveclip-and-textfield/82480>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 10, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/goin-crazy-duplicatemoveclip-and-textfield/82480 "2005-03-10T17:32:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![jcnh74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@jcnh74](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jcnh74)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2005, 5:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/goin-crazy-duplicatemoveclip-and-textfield/82480/1 "2005-03-10T17:32:58Z")

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I’m building a menu based on the abount of images in an XML file. I’ve already got the images to load individually sequecially but now I want a menu built by duplicate movieclip. I can duplicate a movie but I can’t populate the textfield in the clip with a number. plus I don’t know how I’m going to get it to load the individual image.  
the set function is not working.  
here’s a link [http://jackryanphotography.com/images.php](http://jackryanphotography.com/images.php)

Here’s my function

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function buildMenu() {  
trace("Total Images: " + totalSlides);  
i = 1;  
while (i \< totalSlides) {  
duplicateMovieClip(\_root.dynamicMenu.menu[“menuBut”],“menuBut”+i, i);  
\_root.dynamicMenu.menu[“menuBut”+i].\_x = i\*sprd;  
\_root.dynamicMenu.menu[“menuBut”+i].createTextField([“btn”+i], i, 1, 1, 20, 20);  
set (\_root.dynamicMenu.menu[“menuBut”+i][“btn”+i],String(i));  
i++;  
}  
}

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any help would be greatly appreciated  
Thank  
John