Copy mc between loaded swf and root

[FCiL]

Hi

I have som buttons on the root of my movie. When I click on a button a SWF containing several movieclips is loaded in to an empty movieclip.

This works fine... But I would like to be able to copy some of the movieclips in the loaded swf to another empty movieclip on the root, by clicking them.

Is this possible?


FCiL

 

[billwatson]

if all libraries are shared then you could just use attachMovie to get a copy from the library and stick it in the empty clip

if you just give the clips an action like

on(release){
emptyclip.attachMovie(..............)
}

then that should work

 

[FCiL]

Interesting, I didn't know shared libraries. As I see it I will have to import all the shared libraries to the root before I can use them? This ruins the idea of having several (20) swf's containing 3-10 movieclips, loading one at the time.
The user might only need two or three of the swf's.

Did a quick search on shared libraries. There is a lot of people having problems with shared libraries, so if i could avoid it, it would be great.

My idea was something like this:

create "emptyClip1" and "emptyClip2"
emptyClip1.loadMovie("external.swf&quot

Then somehow:
emptyClip1.some_mc.onRelease {
copy emptyClip1.some_mc to emptyClip2
}
I was hoping it could be done by attachMovieClip or duplicateMovieClip, but I cant get that to work.

Any ideas?

FCiL

 

[billwatson]

im sure duplicate movie clip will work fine but if you dont like shared libraries you could always add the clips to the library of the main file