[Q] duplicating movieclip with loaded external jpg file

> simple create your movieclip. Now create an empty clip inside. You will
load
> your JPG in the empty clip. This one can't be duplicated, but you will be
able
> to duplicate its parent. Like that:
> myMc.anEmptyClip.loadMovie("blabla.jpg");
> myMc.duplicateMovieClip("theNameYouWant", levelNumYouWant);
>
> That will works.

No, that will not work

You are partly right - if you create a nested clip and assign properties
(such as an onPress handler) to the parent clip, you can then load content
into the child without overwriting the parent's properties. If you load an
image into the child and then duplicate the parent however, the image in the
child clip *will not be duplicated*. Try it.

> 2- Also, the way you where going to do, works too. yes the user will have
to
> load it again, but it is already in the Browser Cache. It means that will
load
> quickly the second time and after that. Bad side is more that you will
doble
> the bandwidth of the images loading on your site.

Again, partly right. Lets take it bit by bit:

> yes the user will have to
> load it again, but it is already in the Browser Cache

The movie will have to load it again, but will probably load it from cache.

> Bad side is more that you will doble
> the bandwidth of the images loading on your site.

Not so. If it's in the cache, it doesn't use any bandwidth at all - that's
what caching means! A copy of the image is saved on the user's local hard
drive, so no bandwidth needs to be used when loading from cache.

Basically, for the *majority* of users, loaded images will be cached (this
is dependent on browser settings, but most users will have their browsers
set to cache). This means that after the first load, subsequent loads of the
same image will be quick and carry no bandwidth overheads.

The real issue here is that dynamic content in movieClips, such as loaded
images, swfs, or graphics created with the drawing API will not duplicate
when the clip is duplicated/ The accepted work around used to be simply to
reload the aimge. Now with Flash 8 though you can use the BitmapData class
to grab a copy of the image and redraw it to the newly created clip if you
so wish.

Pete
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1- MovieClip have some properties like duplicateMovieClip that disapear when you load something into them. Basicly I can't explain the real reason or all function or properties that does not work after a load, but you found one of them. Here is how you can fix that:

simple create your movieclip. Now create an empty clip inside. You will load your JPG in the empty clip. This one can't be duplicated, but you will be able to duplicate its parent. Like that:
myMc.anEmptyClip.loadMovie("blabla.jpg");
myMc.duplicateMovieClip("theNameYouWant", levelNumYouWant);

That will works.

2- Also, the way you where going to do, works too. yes the user will have to load it again, but it is already in the Browser Cache. It means that will load quickly the second time and after that. Bad side is more that you will doble the bandwidth of the images loading on your site.

3- You ask if there is a proper way to do that, it depends on how you build you application. A simple way sould be to enlarge the movieClip itself when the mouse goes over and reset it to the original size when the mouse out.

Hope that can help