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Duplicate MovieClip in AIR/AS3

Has anyone noticed how creating new instances of a MovieClip (and likely other objects as well) in AIR causes some strange effects? If you use Senocular's method by grabbing the object constructor and creating a new instance of the MovieClip, you end up with a new MovieClip with 0 frames. I don't want to draw bitmapData's of every frame into an array, does anyone have a suggestion for making a real duplicate of a MovieClip? (i.e. not just a strong reference).

Solution

  • i'd personally use flash.utils:

    getQualifiedClassName(value:*):String

    and 

    getDefinitionByName(name:String):Object

    And create an instance using the Class object

    I'm sure there may be a reason why Senocular has used this method, but it may be worth trying replacing that line using these two methods to see if it solves any issues you are having.