Why won't it work

1

before i ask my question i just want to say sorry for posting this question in the actionscript foum and this forum but it had been a little while and nobody had posted in there let alone replied to my thread so i went in and found that it was empty so i decided to post the question here. sorry again.

why won’t it work
i had this code in a movie clip food1

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onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
    if (_root["food"+y], hitTest(_root.part1)) {
        snakelength++;
        x++;
        y++;
        duplicateMovieClip("food"+x, "food"+y, y);
        _root["food"+y]._x = (random(55))*10
        _root["food"+y]._y = (random(40))*10
    }
}

but of course when i duplicated the movieclip it didn’t keep the code because i changed the instace name but i wanted to be able to remove food1, so i put the code in a blank movie clip. I thought i had written the code so that it didn’t matter what movieclip it was in, but it worked in food1 but not in the blank movieclip. someone please help me. thanks.

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try this:

Put this on food1 and move it outside of the stage. You are only using this MC to hold the code. Nothing else.


onClipEvent(enterFrame){
     if(this._name != "food1"){
          nFlag = this.hitTest(_root.part1);
          snakelength++;
          ii++;
          _root.food1.duplicateMovieClip("food"+ii, ii);
          _root["food"+ii]._x = (random(55))*10
          _root["food"+ii]._y = (random(40))*10
     }
}

Try that… it might work. I can’t test it because I don’t haev FLash on me…

I will delete the post in the other forum…

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thanks for the reply jubba, but I’m using a different appoach now.