duplicate movie clips-drag and drop

[tziviak]

I have a movie clip that the user-can drag onto the grid-and move around the grid. But, I want the user to be able to drag onto the grid as many of the item as he/she wants to-so probably the best way to do it is to duplicateMovieClip on the fly-but then how do I keep track of them-and give each one their own name, onclick event...?
til now I have an array with 10 copies of the same movieclip-I'm sure there is a more efficient way to do it with duplicatemovieClip-but I'm not sure how-any ideas?
thank you

 

[wangbar]

You can still use an array with duplicated clips - create the new clip on the fly then push it into the array.

duplicateMovieClip("clip", "clipCopy", 2);
clipArray.push('clipCopy');

You can keep track of all the clips by using the array's length property.

 

[tziviak]

all of the clips can have the same name?

 

[wangbar]

Technically yes and then you could just refer to them by their array indices, but you could add a counter variable too when naming the clips to keep the instance names unique:

duplicateMovieClip("clip", "clipCopy"+num, 2);
clipArray.push('clipCopy');
num++;