[debonaireFlash]

Objective: To create a program that will take as inputs, a base MC and a template MC which contains the base movie clip arranged in a pattern, and to duplicate that pattern on N levels as to create a fractal.

Problems: attachMovieClip() only works with movies that are already in the Library. Any dynamically created MCs generated by using createEmptyMovieClip() cannot be attached to any other movies.

Possible Fixes: I have used duplicateMovieClip() to duplicate the first level fractal, but have yet figured out how to define the parent of those duplicated MCs so that I can then duplicate that parent, creating the second and subsequent levels of the fractal.

Possible Code Refactoring: Use a For... In loop instead of the For loop. For(movieclip in _parentMC){...}, but looking at the help files and duplicating the help files code has not worked...

I have the following code that creates the first pattern:

Code:

//Variables listed in order of appearance
var fractalNum=0;
var movieCnt = 10;
var originalX=[28,28,28,14,42,42,14,56,0,56,00];
var originalY=[28,42,14,56,00,56,00,56,0,42,14];
var currentCanvasSize = 1078;
var maxLevel = 2;

function attachMovieClip(){
    _root.createEmptyMovieClip("fractal"+(fractalNum+1),fractalNum);
    
    for(movieNum=0;movieNum<=movieCnt;movieNum++){
        _root["fractal"+(fractalNum+1)].attachMovie("fractal"+fractalNum,"movie"+movieNum,movieNum);             
        _root["fractal"+(fractalNum+1)]["movie"+movieNum]._x=originalX[movieNum];
        _root["fractal"+(fractalNum+1)]["movie"+movieNum]._y=originalY[movieNum];
    }
    centerMovie(_root["fractal"+(fractalNum+1)]);
    fractalNum++;
    if(fractalNum<=maxLevel){
        attachMovieClip();
    }
}

function centerMovie(movie){
    movie._x = (currentCanvasSize - movie._width) / 2;
    movie._y = (currentCanvasSize - movie._height) / 2;    
}

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