movie clip editing

Author: cfz     03 12th, 2010 in sbbbs.com     edit

  • Hi,
    I have created a movie clip with an hover over caption. I want to copy it several time. I am copying an instance of it on the stage, but as soon as i edit the text on my copied movie it alters the original movie clip as well. Is it possible that when i copy my origirnal movie clip, and edit the copied one, it does not affect the original movie clip?

    Please help

    Thanks


  • The best way to do what you're after is with a bit of actionscript. In your movie clip, make a dynamic text box that will hold your caption text. Then, in your actionscript, you can reference the text box in each instance of your movie clip, like so:

    //where captionClip is the main movie clip, and captionWords the dynamic text box
    captionClip1.captionWords.text="Text for the first caption instance.";
    captionClip2.captionWords.text="Text for the second caption instance.";
    captionClip3.captionWords.text="Text for the third caption instance.";

    and so on. :)


  • use duplicate not copy....


  • hmm...their might be one, but im a novice still and im doing it most of the time the difficult way. on my page i just duplicated it, and everything in this button was still the same as in the original one.

    only thing to look for is, if you have any instances used in this button, i.e. a graphic as background, or a movieclip for the text, u need to change this...


  • Hi thanks for the reply,
    So basically you are saying that duplicate the movie clip, create a new instance of the duplicated movie clip and edit that and all the action scripting linked with it? Do you by any chance, know a faster way around that. Caz i have sixteen buttons to do.

    cheers







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