Swapping symbols

[MC Frog]

Can you swap a symbol using script? I want to use the same timeline based animation over and over again and all I want to do is change the symbol each time using script.

Thanks

[CesareRocchi]

Symbol swapping and register class are allowed at design time. You can try to
actionscript
the animation of your timeline and then extend the MovieClip object like this:

MovieClip.prototype.yourAnimation = function () {

}

This way you have the behaviour encoded as a function which can be applied to
every symbol
which inherits from MovieClip.

HTH,

-c.

[MC Frog]

My conclusion is that you cannot swap symbols using actionscript in the way I
want, for the duration of the MC. You can, it appears, swap the MC until the
next keyframe by using:

deleteMovieClip();
attachMovie("foo","foo2",0);

But this means you have to place this in a ClipEvent for every keyframe and
isn't the cleanest solution. So is there another way to do what I want?

[CesareRocchi]

This is not swapping in the technical sense, this is substitution.
Anyway, if you want you can go on with your solution but remember that
remove/delete statements don't actually erase objects, they simply 'suggest'
the player that
it's time to clean the memory. If you have to do you trick many times, e.g.
500, there could be
problems with performance.

btw 'deleteMovieClip()' is not a method in my Flash MX. r u using mw2004?

HTH,

-c.