same movieclip in consecutive frames

I tested this out using Flash 8 publishing as Flash player 6 and AS 2.0.

The empty MovieClip is placed on stage with different instance names and
will generate an init message for each when you test movie.



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"Jeff Schumann" <jschumann@imedstudios.com> wrote in message
news:e7u93p$fjk$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I have an empty movieclip with this code attached to it.
>
> class com.mcTakePicture extends MovieClip{
>
>
> //*****************************
> // public functions
> //*****************************
> public function mcTakePicture() {
> init();
> }
> //*****************************
> // end
>
>
> //*****************************
> // getters and setters
> //*****************************
> //*****************************
> // end
>
>
> //*****************************
> // private functions
> //*****************************
> private function init():Void {
> trace("init");
> }
> //*****************************
> // end
>
> }
>
>
> The movieclip is placed in the first 3 frames of the timeline. Each in its
> own keyframe. Basically when I run it I want it to output 'init' 3 times.
> However it only does it once. If I take out the second movieclip it
> outputs 'init' twice like expected. Shouldn't init be called each time for
> each movieclip? It seems that Flash is determining that since they are the
> same to only runs once. I don't want to call an onEnterFrame function. Any
> ideas on how to get around this. I'm outputting the file as Flash 6.
>
> TIA
> Jeff
>