Problem with caching MCs

programming flash
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Hi everybody, long time I didn’t get back to ActionScript

I have a pretty odd question. I’m currently doing a script in which I have to preload some external resources (jpgs) at the begining of the animation.
Going OK, I dynamicaly create my MCs in which I do my loadmovies. Classical.

Now the thing is, a few frames later, I need to reuse the images I have preloaded in other MCs. The thing is there seems to be a problem in using dynamicaly created MCs, here is why this is weird :

  • I import a MC from the library : I can duplicate it, and I see it on the animation
  • the MC that I have created, that I see on the animation, doesn’t want to be duplicated : by that I mean that when I duplicate it, it can’t be seen.

Now if there is a simple explanation for that, I have another question : I have an empty MC in which I want to copy one of the very MCs that I have dynamicaly created at the beginingn what is the best method ? attachMovie ? doesn’t seem to work, but yet again, all this might be related.

Thanks in advance !

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hmm maybe I didn’t explain myself that well :slight_smile:

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a little code might help to get some response, either that or it’s a dead simple fix, for which the gurus have answered previously…

in my layman experience it sounds like you’re referencing things wrong… if you can afford the memory, why not just make the MC with the image you need invisible? or set to the lowest level…???