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856 ActionScript classes

initObject:Object [optional] - (Supported for Flash Player 6 and later.) An object that

contains properties with which to populate the duplicated movie clip. This parameter allows

dynamically created movie clips to receive clip parameters. If

initObject is not an object, it

is ignored. All properties of

initObject are copied into the new instance. The properties

specified with

initObject are available to the constructor function.

Returns

MovieClip - A reference to the duplicated movie clip (supported for Flash Player 6 and later).

Example

The following example duplicates a newly created MovieClip a number of times and traces

the target for each duplicate.

var container:MovieClip = setUpContainer();

var ln:Number = 10;

var spacer:Number = 1;

var duplicate:MovieClip;

for(var i:Number = 1; i < ln; i++) {

var newY:Number = i * (container._height + spacer);

duplicate = container.duplicateMovieClip("clip-" + i, i, {_y:newY});

trace(duplicate); // _level0.clip-[number]

}

function setUpContainer():MovieClip {

var mc:MovieClip = this.createEmptyMovieClip("container",

this.getNextHighestDepth());

var w:Number = 100;

var h:Number = 20;

mc.beginFill(0x333333);

mc.lineTo(w, 0);

mc.lineTo(w, h);

mc.lineTo(0, h);

mc.lineTo(0, 0);

mc.endFill();

return mc;

}

The MovieClip.getNextHighestDepth() method used in this example requires Flash Player

7 or later. If your SWF file includes a version 2 component, use the version 2 components

DepthManager class instead of the

MovieClip.getNextHighestDepth() method.