# How do you address, dupilcate movie?

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**Created:** [January 10, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-address-dupilcate-movie/10980 "2003-01-10T02:39:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![Blood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a88e4f/32.png) [@Blood](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Blood)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 2:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-address-dupilcate-movie/10980/1 "2003-01-10T02:39:34Z")

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I was wondering what you put in for addressing the duplicate MC???  
PLZ tell me.  
Thx

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**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-address-dupilcate-movie/10980/2 "2003-01-10T04:11:14Z")

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well, depending where you place the duplicate, you would usually call it by the name you gave it:

[color=blue]duplicateMovieClip[/color](“dis”, “dat”, 1);

you could usually access the movie directly like:

dat.[color=blue]\_x[/color] = [COLOR=blue]random/COLOR;

or something.  
there’s a different story when you’re duplicating multiple times like so:

for (i = 0; i \< 20; ++i) {  
duplicateMovieClip(“dis”, “dat”+i, i);  
}

the problem here is that you might want to access each of the duplicate but don’t want to go through the process of calling each one by it’s name (eg: dat0.\_x =… dat1.\_x =… and so on). what you could do is access the duplicate within the loop as soon as it’s made. this way, you don’t have to write scripts for each of the duplicates. for example:

for (i = 0; i \< 20; ++i) {  
duplicateMovieClip(“dis”, “dat”+i, i);  
mc = \_parent[“dat”+i];  
mc.\_x = random(550);  
mc.\_y = random(400);  
}

as you can see, i assigned a variable the name of the duplicate that was just made through the line:

mc = \_parent[“dat”+i];

now you can control the duplicate however you like using “mc” as if that were the duplicate.  
hope this helped.

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**Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 11:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-address-dupilcate-movie/10980/3 "2003-01-10T23:26:25Z")

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Thank you.

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**Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-address-dupilcate-movie/10980/4 "2003-01-11T13:42:51Z")

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In MX, duplicateMovieClip returns a reference to the clip, so you could just do mc=duplicateMovieClip(…);

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**Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-address-dupilcate-movie/10980/5 "2003-01-11T15:35:03Z")

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be aware duplicateMovieClip needs to be in the form mc.duplicateMovieClip(…) for a return value and not duplicateMovieClip(mc, …)

also bear in mind attachMovie also returns a mc reference when called as does createEmptyMovieClip

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**Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-address-dupilcate-movie/10980/6 "2003-01-11T21:54:29Z")

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Is mc the instance name??

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**Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-address-dupilcate-movie/10980/7 "2003-01-11T22:41:49Z")

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yeah, of the movieclip you want to duplicate

look it up in flash help for more info

look in the actionscript dictionary under M for movieclip then MovieClip.duplicateMovieClip

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**Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 11:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-address-dupilcate-movie/10980/8 "2003-01-11T23:32:35Z")

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k, thx for all the help.

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**Post date:** [January 11, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-address-dupilcate-movie/10980/9 "2003-01-11T23:37:41Z")

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just wait, for when you put duplicate the movie they ask for the target, newname, depth.  
i dont know what to put in those.

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**Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 12:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-address-dupilcate-movie/10980/10 "2003-01-12T00:03:16Z")

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There’s a tute about duplicate movie clip, but it uses the old syntax.

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**Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-you-address-dupilcate-movie/10980/11 "2003-01-12T00:06:24Z")

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ok