duplicating movie clips

Published by: mike 2009-01-08

Hey guys.
I was wondering is there a way to duplicate a movie clip and edit a text field in the duplicate movie clip without editing whats in the text field in the original movie clip even if that text field in the mc is animated with a guided motion tween?

Omega Media :: Services > Training::
files into levels or movie clips, building menus, loading external movie clip properties, scrolling, dragging movie clips, and duplicating movie clips.
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Dissymmetry Intermediate Flash Tutorial - Mouse Trails::
We are duplicating the MouseFollower movie clip and incrementing what layer we We then tell the new movie clip what its name is in line 15 so that it can
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i havnt started workin on the animation or nething yet cause i need to do it 36times with each letter of the alphabet but i was wondering if i can do it by just making one mc with the text field animated how i want and have it duplicated and edit the duplicate with out changing nething on the original to save time?

Peachpit: The Flash Slide Algorithm > Creating Sliding Panels for ::
Duplicating the Movie Clip On-the-Fly. Adding Scale to the Effect Always try to use descriptive instance names for movie clips.
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Flash Kit, A Flash Developer Resource for Macromedia Flash 8 and MX ::
This shows how to duplicate movie clips, name them with Flash 5 syntax, and set User controlled duplication of a self controlled movie clip.
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