ActionScript 2.0 :: How To Create Instance Of MovieClip
May 19, 2005
I want to be able to create a movie clip on the fly, inside another movie clip, not duplicate, but create an instance of a clip that only exists in the library. The movie clip that the new clip must be created in is going to have a loadMovie already applied to it, so anything existing in it will be removed. I need a way to insert a clip from the library into this parent mc. I tried attachMovie() but its not seeming to work.
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