ActionScript 3.0 :: Duplicating The Movie Clips?
Feb 2, 2010
i know i can duplicated a movie clip by using addChild:
Code:
var myMC:MovieClip = new blank_character;
this.addChild(myMC);
myMC.x = 200;
myMc.y = 200;
etc...
Im making somewhat of an online multiplayer game, it loops through an XML file full of character co-ords and names etc and creates movie clips and positions the characters on the screen accordingly.
The characters are pulled out from the library once, and then after that i want to access the movie clips within the characters.
for example, in the root timeline i have all the characters, inside the characters i have movie clips containing their clothing, names, etc, that i want to be able to edit.But im having troubles referencing the movie clips and doing this.
I've tried things like
Code:
var myMC:MovieClip = new blank_character;
this.addChild(myMC);
myMC.name = "character"+characterID;
[code]....
1119: Access of possibly undefined property clothing through a reference with static type flash.displayisplayObject.
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