Referencing problems: duplicated movie clip with a dynamic text field

Thanks for such a quick reply. Wow!

I didn't use any code to duplicate the movie clip. I copy and pasted the movie clip in layer 1 of frame 1 in the main timeline to layer 2 of frame 1 in the main timeline.

I then selected the newly copied frame in layer 2, and gave it a different instance name of 'i_lotteryball2'.

The path to the text field:

layer 1:

_root.i_lotteryball1.i_ballstrip.i_text.d_text1;

layer 2

_root.i_lotteryball2.i_ballstrip.i_text.d_text1;

So basically, inside the movie clip instance 'i_lotteryball1', is another movie clip intance called 'i_ballstrip' ans so on, until we get to the text field at the end.

When I assign a frame script within the movie clip 'i_ballstrip', I can change the text dynamically of the text field, using:

this.i_text1.d_text1.text = _global.text1;

The global is set as a frame script in the main timeline:

_global.text1 = "10";

If I try and use:

_root.i_lotteryball1.i_ballstrip.i_text.d_text1.text = _global.text1;

...in the main timeline, the text is not updated but no error.

The problem is, that although the text is updating with the script  inside 'i_ballstrip', it is only updating the text in 'i_lotteryball1', which is logical.

I want to be able to update text fields inside several instances of the original 'lotteryball' movie clip with different text, passed in as global variables (eventually originating from Flashvars).

I can send you my flash file (Flash 8), if that would help...

Thanks again for all your help...

Charlie