parameter problem in functions

Question

I have a problem: I want to create a function that add a
movie clip instance on the scene.

function showItem(lx,ly,clip){
 _root.attachMovie("doc1",clip,0);
 clip._x = lx;
 clip._y = ly;
}

the problem lies on the variable clip:
if the function is called, e.g. 
showItem(240,120,"clip"); then this won't work because the
"clip" variable, which should be without the " " inside the
function. How do you solve this small but annoying problem?
thanks for the help

kglad · Accepted Answer

you can only have, at most, one movieclip at each depth. so,change your depth:

kglad · Answer

you're only passing what name you call the movieclip that's attached. you're not passing which movieclip to attach. do you really mean to pass the name of the linkage id to showItem?

if not, use _root[clip]._x etc.

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