Hi Nik, I see what you mean now - you want to be able to ask a MovieClip what the linkage id of it's master in the library is. And, yes, there seems no nice way of doing this!
Another option to consider might be to derive the attached movie clips' names from the linkage ids and then use the _name to derive the linkage id back again when you need it. So, given a linkage id of "myLibSymbol", name derived clips "myLibSymbol_1", "myLibSymbol_2" and so on and then, when you need to know a movie clip's linkage id just extract it from the _name using String methods. I like that fact that this route would mean that the data you needed is encapsulated in the name of the clip itself but there may be unnecessary processing load with the String manipulation? I'm just thinking freely here! Cheers Adrian P. On 5/2/06, Zeh Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Im trying to find a way to duplicate one movie clip into a new movieclip > so > that it can take advantage of the new target MC's rotation, location etc. > It looks like duplicateMovieClip is what i want, but as far as i can tell > it > seems to only duplicate an MC within the same parent MC - is this really > the > case or am i missing something ?? Yes, it is the case - it only duplicates movieclips within the same parent, creating a sibling. If you want to duplicate or move movieclips across different movieclip levels, you'll need to either create movieclips that can be attached (so you can just reattach the movieclip to another level and set its properties to mimic the original one) or use/wait for AS3. - Zeh _______________________________________________ [email protected] To change your subscription options or search the archive: http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders Brought to you by Fig Leaf Software Premier Authorized Adobe Consulting and Training http://www.figleaf.com http://training.figleaf.com
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