Re: FLASH: simple duplicate MC script crashing F5

[Matt Spiegler]

nope, it's coming from one MC and duping another. I'd put it up, but

unfortunately I've already deleted the AS and am starting over. If anyone spots

what I did wrong though, I'd love to learn.


John Dowdell wrote:


> At 10:29 AM 9/13/0, Matt Spiegler wrote:

> >onClipEvent (enterFrame) {

> >    if (dupe = 1) {

> >        duplicateMovieClip (_root.bg1, "box2", 2);

> >        dupe = "2";

> >

> >If I remove the script everything plays fine. I'm assuming I'm somehow

> >causing an infinite loop, but can't see where it's occurring. I tried to

> >write the script so that it would only dupe the MC once, then quit.

>

> I'm not practiced yet at debugging scripts via email, but are you

> duplicating this same clip, or is this instruction duplicating some other

> clip? What I'm wondering is whether it's getting instructions to duplicate

> itself, so you get a chain of things which each duplicate themselves

> once...?

>

> I may very well be offbase, but could something like this be the case there?

>

> (If so, then perhaps looking at issuing the "duplicate" command outside of

> the duplicated clip itself, or else just putting two clips there to start,

> or something like that...?)

>

> jd

>

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