# \-=Move Movie Clip=-

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/move-movie-clip/30684>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 12, 2003, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/move-movie-clip/30684 "2003-09-12T09:10:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3bc359/32.png) [@Zeth](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Zeth)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2003, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/move-movie-clip/30684/1 "2003-09-12T09:10:42Z")

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Although this should be a breeze for someone such as myself… I can’t seem to get a certain aspect to work…

I need to basically move/duplicate a currently existing movieclip into another dynamically created movieclip. All attempts thus far have failed :-\

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I tried a general duplicate movie clip method.

# == duplicateMovieClip(“Close”, “CloseButton”, eval(WindowName+".TitleBar"));

This faultered as the duplication just occured on the root -\_-

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I even attempted creating a null movie clip in one of my layers then swaping depth.

# == eval("\_root."+WindowName + “.TitleBar”).createEmptyMovieClip(“closeholder”, 1); Close.swapDepths(eval(WindowName+".TitleBar.closeholder"));

In this case I’m probably using [and understanding] depths incorrectly. Basically I assumed depth/target/object were interchangable as in specification of a path… or a general depth.

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Any idea’s on moving my movie clip around throughout other dynamic movieclips/objects? Im thinking I MIGHT have to specify the path as a variable then eval the var to associate properly… hmm.

Thanx in ahead,

~Zeth