replacing movie clips- help me and i'll be your best friend

[master duck]

i'm having trouble. what i need to do is insert or replace movie clips at run time. can someone tell me where to find a good tutorial on this, or give me a quick run-down of what i need to do? if you do, i'll be your bestest friend.

[ilyaslamasse]

What do you mean, replacing movie clips at run time ?? Can you provide an example ?

pom 0]

[master duck]

specifically, i want to make actionscript switch the content of a textbox between a number of possibilities (each possibility will be determined by a different generator variable). i would love to simply use a dynamic box, but that makes ugly, non-antialiased text. so, i'm left with making a bunch of separate mc's, each with a textbox with a generator variable. but then i don't know how to plug in each one at an appropriate time. how... please god, tell me how...

[ilyaslamasse]

OK, I don't think I understand :D
You have a bunck of movie clips.
They all have a 'generator variable' (WTH is that ?)
You want to 'plug in each one at an appropriate time' (what time would that be ??)

pom 0] , long is the way to perfection, especially if you have to deal with a non English speaking Phrenchman...

[flatline damnation]

Just create one MovieClip with many keyframes and use tellTarget to switch between them...
Go here doom.4ever.cc (http://doom.4ever.cc) and enter the "Local Public Terminal"
Notice the changing symbols at the upper left when you highlight certain buttons? Plain tellTarget.