# Set text of duplicated items

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/set-text-of-duplicated-items/89381>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 7, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/set-text-of-duplicated-items/89381 "2005-05-07T18:53:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![3pinter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/9de053/32.png) [@3pinter](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/3pinter)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/set-text-of-duplicated-items/89381/1 "2005-05-07T18:53:05Z")

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Okay,

I’m duplicating a number of mc’s (let’s say 5)

```auto

space = 0.5;
for (i=1; i<=5; i++) {
    duplicateMovieClip("tab", "tab"+i, i);
    eval("tab"+i)._x = i*(space+tab._width);
}
MovieClip.prototype.settext = function(text, letter) {
    this.btn_nfo = text;
    this.sym.letter = letter;
};
tab1.settext(info, l);
tab2.settext(etc, E);
//etc.etc.

```

But that doesn’t work … at least the prototype. If I set it without a proto it works just fine (een.btn\_nfo = “info”). But I want to have one button, duplicate it 5 times, and set the dynamic textfields individually …

Perhaps any thoughts?

😏