Duplicate Sprite

SWF Action
Action Category: 
Movie
Action Details: 
0
Action Identifier: 
36
Action Structure: 
<n.a.>
Action Length: 
0 byte(s)
Action Stack: 
pop 1 (i), pop 2 (s)
Action Operation: 
i1 := pop();
s2 := pop();
s3 := pop();
duplicate_sprite(s3, s2, i1);
Action Flash Version: 
4
See Also: 
DefineSprite
Get URL
Get URL2
New
Remove Sprite

s3 is the name of an existing sprite1 which is copied by this action.

The new sprite is given  the name s2 and is placed at depth i1.

The depth of a duplicated sprite is not used the same way in Flash 4 and Flash 5+. The depth parameter in this function is not clearly documented anywhere, but it looks like you need to have a depth of 16384 or more for a duplicated sprite to work properly (this is not visible to the high level ActionScript users.)

  • 1. Remember that a sprite, movie, thread and other terms that I forget, are all the same thing.