# Replacing movie clips- help me and i'll be your best friend

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**Created:** [March 30, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/replacing-movie-clips-help-me-and-ill-be-your-best-friend/2464 "2002-03-30T20:58:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 8:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/replacing-movie-clips-help-me-and-ill-be-your-best-friend/2464/1 "2002-03-30T20:58:54Z")

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i’m having trouble. what i need to do is insert or replace movie clips at run time. can someone tell me where to find a good tutorial on this, or give me a quick run-down of what i need to do? if you do, i’ll be your bestest friend.

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**Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 9:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/replacing-movie-clips-help-me-and-ill-be-your-best-friend/2464/2 "2002-03-30T21:35:51Z")

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What do you mean, replacing movie clips at run time ?? Can you provide an example ?

pom 0]

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**Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 10:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/replacing-movie-clips-help-me-and-ill-be-your-best-friend/2464/3 "2002-03-30T22:51:09Z")

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specifically, i want to make actionscript switch the content of a textbox between a number of possibilities (each possibility will be determined by a different generator variable). i would love to simply use a dynamic box, but that makes ugly, non-antialiased text. so, i’m left with making a bunch of separate mc’s, each with a textbox with a generator variable. but then i don’t know how to plug in each one at an appropriate time. how… please god, tell me how…

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**Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 10:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/replacing-movie-clips-help-me-and-ill-be-your-best-friend/2464/4 "2002-03-30T22:56:20Z")

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OK, I don’t think I understand 😃  
You have a bunck of movie clips.  
They all have a ‘generator variable’ (WTH is that ?)  
You want to ‘plug in each one at an appropriate time’ (what time would that be ??)

pom 0] , \* long is the way to perfection, especially if you have to deal with a non English speaking Phrenchman…\*

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**Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 6:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/replacing-movie-clips-help-me-and-ill-be-your-best-friend/2464/5 "2002-03-31T06:52:11Z")

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Just create one MovieClip with many keyframes and use tellTarget to switch between them…  
Go here [doom.4ever.cc](http://doom.4ever.cc) and enter the “Local Public Terminal”  
Notice the changing symbols at the upper left when you highlight certain buttons? Plain tellTarget.