Duplicating Movie Clips

Question

Hello,
I this is probably a very simple thing to do but I cant find
anything which seems to a duplicate movie clip and maybe this
function has been completely removed and not recreated at all
within the new AS3 where it was available in AS2.
I am wondering if someone can help me with this.
I have attached a snippet of my code below which defines what
I am attempting, any help would be appreciated.
Basically all I want to do is duplicate a movieclip in a for
loop and have them placed side by side with each other.
Here is my code:
for (i=0; i<10; i++)
addChild (_brick);
_brick.x = brick.width * i;
Many thanks in advance
Lee

Answer 1

Lee,
You have to assign each new brick to an instance, then add
that child to the stage. There may be a more proper coding way to
do it, but based on your code, you would need to turn on linking of
your brick movie clip and make sure it's named "_brick". Then, this
should work.
for (var i=0; i<10; i++) {
var myBrick = new _brick();
addChild(myBrick);
myBrick.x = myBrick.width * i;
}