Dynamic Instance for a MOVIE CLIP

Hi Please help me!!!!!!!!!!
I am creating dynamic Movie Clip using as3, but I don't have
any idea about dynamic Instance name, please give me some idea that
how I can assign Instance name for a movie clip.
I am waiting your reply.
Thanks
Sushil Kumar

You can assign a value to the name property of the MovieClip,
but refering to the variable name of your MovieClip instance is
preferable. This code illustrates the difference:

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hello,
I was wondering if there was a way to add several instances
of the same movie clip to the stage dynamically utilizing one
button.
I can do one with the following code placed on the button...
on (release) {
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Muhl,
> I was wondering if there was a way to add several
> instances of the same movie clip to the stage
> dynamically utilizing one button.
Sure thing.
> I can do one with the following code placed on the
> button...
>
> on (release) {
> attachMovie ("filledCircle", "filled1", 5);
> filled1._x = 370;
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> and get yet another instance of "filledCircle" on the
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keep in mind is that each instance must have A) its own
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and B) its own unique depth. In your example, the instance
name is filled1
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filled2 at a
depth of 6. Then filled3, depth 7, and so on. You can use a
single
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4);
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concatenation of
"filled" + 1, which makes "filled1". The third parameter is
provided with
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movie clips
here, so your best bet is to study up on the MovieClip class,
which defines
all movie clips. (Note, also, that the TextField class
defines all input
and dynamic text fields; the Sound class defines all sounds,
etc. This is a
very handy arrangement of the ActionScript 2.0 Language
Reference.)
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mc._y = 225;
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the event
of each new MovieClip instance as you create it. Take a look
and you'll see
each of these class members available to you -- that is, to
all movie clips.
MovieClip.onPress, MovieClip.startDrag(), MovieClip._x, etc.
Wherever it shows the term MovieClip in the Language
Reference, just
replace that with the instance name of your clip -- or a
reference to that
clip (which even includes the global "this" property).
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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