Re: FLASH: duplicating movie clips

[Colin Klein]

At 06:12 PM 10/7/99 -0500, you wrote:

>I'm confused about where duplicated movie clips exist on the timeline.  

>

>On the main timeline I have a button, and movie clip called Info.  Info has

>two labels; Park, which displays some text, and Play, which has a movie clip

>named Event.  If there is more than one event to be displayed, the

>actionscript at Play will duplicate the MC Event as many times as necessary.

>

>When I roll over the button, it TT's Info to Goto Play, and I see the

>contents of Event.  When I roll off the button, it TT's Info to Goto Park,

>and the contents of Event disappear because Event doesn't exist at the label

>Park.  

>

>When I roll over the button and there is more than one event, I see multiple

>copies of the MC event.  BUT, when I roll off the button, only the original

>MC event disappears, and the duplicate copies of Event stay on the stage.

>

>Shouldn't these duplicate copies go away?  Don't they also exist in the

>keyframe where they were created, and then cease to exist if you go to a new

>keyframe?



Hi Dave, 

 The duplicate movie clips remain on the main timeline, level/0. I don't

think they will go away unless you remove the parent clip or you use the

"Remove Movie Clip".  I am not sure, but I do not think keyframes have

anything to do with it. 


CPK





Colin Klein

Audio Engineer

Jet City Studios

Seattle, WA

206.448.5854 ext#105


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