Referencing duplicated movie clips

I am using the following script to duplicate the movie clips
pixel.duplicateMovieClip("pixel"+i,
this.getNextHighestDepth(), {_x
, _y:m});
how can I get the x and y values for the duplicated clips, I
tried assigning a text box with variable xget an d wrote the
script:
xget = pixel+i._x
how should I be scripting this?

you could do something like:
xget = eval("pixel" + i +"._x");
-or-
xget = this["pixel" + i]._x;
Either one could work...

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I have a movie clip that has a script declaration of:
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in the first frame.
(I've also tried var myCGroup:Array; var myCGroup:Array = new
Array(); and var myCGroup:Array = []; )
I duplicate this movie clip multiple times. I'm having
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The only code I've been able to write that writes to this
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However, reading them back out from a separate function later
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the same function using the same targeting.
(yes, materProds[sm] == targetThumb)
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I have been using this line of code to fade in a movie clip:
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I this is probably a very simple thing to do but I cant find
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function has been completely removed and not recreated at all
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