duplicating a movie clip

i have a movie clip that a user can duplicate by pressing a button. i want the new duplicated movie clip's ._y attribute to be 50 pixels offset. the first duplicate i make is offset, but all the others just duplicate in the same place.

cna someone please tell me what i'm doing wrong and how to get each new movie clip to be offset from the previous one


here is my code:

// initial container name is "container0"

copy=0;
apply_drag(copy);

//copy button
_root.more.onRelease=function() {
duplicate_container();
}
//duplication functionality
function duplicate_container() {
copy++;
container0.duplicateMovieClip("container"+copy,copy);
_root["container"+copy]._y+=50;
apply_drag(copy);
}
//dragging
function apply_drag(copy) {
_root["container"+copy].frame.onPress=function() {
_root["container"+copy].startDrag(false);
}

_root["container"+copy].frame.onRelease=function() {
_root["container"+copy].stopDrag();
}
}

Hi, what your doing is saying _y = 50...well theres a bit more to it but in this case that explanation will do :¬) try this out:

_root["container"+copy]._y = _root["container"+copy]._y + 50;

thanks for the help, but this doesn't seem to work.

a=a+50 is essentially a+=50.

i appreciate you taking the time to answer, though.

Hi, sorry one of my more famous "slow" moments :¬) try this out:

_root["container"+copy]._y += (50 * copy);

It works! thanks a bunch.

Andrew

heres the reall tricky question.

i've been thinking about how i should do this, but nothing brilliant seems to come to mind.

now that i have a potential for numerous movie clips (i will refer to them as boxes) how can i close a specific one by clicking a close button i created on the box.

this is what i have, but i don't understand why it wouldn't work.

function close_container() {
for(c=0;c<=copy;c++) {
_root["container"+c].closeBox.onRelease=function() {
_root["container"+c].removeMovieClip();
}
}
}

thanks

Hi, try this:

this._parent.removeMovieClip();

awesome! thanks for your help.