Urgent Help with tiling a grid in AS

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Hi Guys,

I am relatively new to AS and Flash, but I’m starting to get an understanding of its main concepts. However, I am struggling with one thing at the moment. All I want to do is to be able to create a grid in a movieclip container. The following script works perfectly if you want to add a grid to the stage:

function tileGrid(){
    
    grid_width     = 10;
    grid_height = 10;
    //
    x_max = Math.round(Stage.width/grid_width);
    y_max = Math.round(Stage.height/grid_height);
    
    for (x=0; x<x_max; x++)
    {
        for (y=0; y<y_max; y++)
        {
            bg = _root.attachMovie("grid", "gd"+x+y, 
                this.getNextHighestDepth());
            bg._x = grid_width*x;
            bg._y = grid_height*y;
        }// End of inner loop
    }// End of outer loop
}

However I only want to create a grid in a movieclip container called “contentArea_mc”, but so far, instead of tiling the grid, it only attaches one cell:

function tileGrid(){
    
    grid_width     = 10;
    grid_height = 10;
    //
    x_max = Math.round(this.contentArea_mc._width/grid_width);
    y_max = Math.round(this.contentArea_mc._height/grid_height);
    
    for (x=0; x<x_max; x++)
    {
        for (y=0; y<y_max; y++)
        {
            bg = this.contentArea_mc.attachMovie("grid", "gd"+x+y, 
                this.getNextHighestDepth());
            bg._x = grid_width*x;
            bg._y = grid_height*y;
        }// End of inner loop
    }// End of outer loop
}



button_mc.onRelease = function () {
    if (button_mc._currentframe == 1) {
        button_mc.gotoAndStop("on");
        tileGrid();
    }else {
        button_mc.gotoAndStop("off");
    }
}

Furthermore, clicking on the movie clip button keeps movie the cell diagonally downward to the bottom right. I don’t really know what that is.

Can anybody please help?

Please find attached a copy of the source file.

Many Thanks TAJ