# Spreading duplicated mc's

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spreading-duplicated-mcs/198408>\
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**Created:** [August 24, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spreading-duplicated-mcs/198408 "2006-08-24T19:36:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mediashock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/58f4c7/32.png) [@Mediashock](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mediashock)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/spreading-duplicated-mcs/198408/1 "2006-08-24T19:36:49Z")

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hi, i am trying to create a list of buttons populated from an xml file

they populate but i DONT want them to align with x starting at 0

this is what i got

gridX = 30;

for(var i=0; i\<proAmmount; i++) {  
proBtn.duplicateMovieClip(“proBtn”+i,i);  
\_root[“proBtn”+i].\_y = gridX\*i  
}

i want to be able to start the first buttons \_x at lets say 100 or something and then space them out 30 px apart…

please let me know if you can help thanks