Re: FLASH: duplicating movies and setting property to specific x,y

[Nathan Dicken]

Hi Olga,


There's a few ways that you could do this but here's an idea.  The

"spacing" and "startX/Y" variables you could change to whatever you'd

like...



Set Variable: "spacing" = /mc0:_height + 10

Set Variable: "startX" = "100"

Set Variable: "startY" = "100"

Set Variable: "index" = "0"

Set Variable: "n" = "1"

Loop While (n < 6)

      Duplicate Movie Clip ("/mc0", "mc"&n, n)

      Set Property ("/mc"&n, X Position) = startX

      Set Property ("/mc"&n, Y Position) = startY + (spacing * index)

      Set Variable: "n" = n+1

      Duplicate Movie Clip ("/mc0", "mc"&n, n)

      Set Property ("/mc"&n, X Position) = startX + spacing

      Set Property ("/mc"&n, Y Position) = startY + (spacing * index)

      Set Variable: "n" = n+1

      Set Variable: "index" = index + 1

End Loop



Hope that helps...


Nathan Dicken

Fusionary Media




>I feel really inept, I'm having trouble with something that seems like it

>should be fairly straightforward.  How does one set the property of a set

>number of dynamically generated mcs such that the placement order ends up

>like this:

>

>1  2

>3  4

>5  6

>

>

>I can't seem to get them spaced apart properly-- I extrapolated from the

>code in a tutorial I found, set property (of mc) to GetProperty (mc, _width)

>+n* GetProperty (mc, _height).  -- n being the number of the duplicate.

>

>Thanks!

>olga

>

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