Working with Movie Clips and Buttons > Using actions and methods to control movie clips > Duplicating and removing movie clips

 

Duplicating and removing movie clips

To duplicate or remove movie clip instances as a movie is playing, use duplicateMovieClip or removeMovieClip, respectively. The duplicateMovieClip action and method dynamically create a new instance of the movie clip, assign it a new instance name, and give it a depth. A duplicated movie clip always starts at frame 1 even if the original movie clip was on another frame when duplicated, and is always on top of all previously defined movie clips placed on the Timeline.

To delete a movie clip you created with duplicateMovieClip, use removeMovieClip. Duplicated movie clips also are removed if the parent movie clip is deleted.

For more information, see duplicateMovieClip and removeMovieClip in the online ActionScript Dictionary in the Help menu.