Help needed with this loop

[ARSA]

using this code I can manage to duplicate the movie clip, if the "dot" movie clip is in the _root. But my movie clip is not found in the _root. it is found in this path:

_root.navigation.main.map.dot

I tried adding the path on front of all the "dot"s in my code, but then it doesnt duplicate my dots???

any help?

// finalCountNum is loaded from a PHP file

// (user setings, will be changed latter for database values)
var xpos 		= -330.4;
var ypos 		= 72.8;
var yspace 		= 5;


// Duplicate the dots and place them apart on the X & Y axis
for (i=1; i<=finalCountNum; i++;) {
	dot.duplicateMovieClip("dot"+i, this);
	this["dot"+i]._x = xpos;
	this["dot"+i]._y = ypos;
	ypos += yspace;
	
	// Get the last name of the dot for the debugger
	var dotName = ["dot"+i];
}

Thank you!

[igor.kudela]

dot.duplicateMovieClip("dot"+i, this); change it to _root.duplicateMovieClip("dot"+i, this);
and it should work

[ARSA]

hello, igor.kudela

your suggestion doesn't seem to work for me any other suggetsions?

[ARSA]

Well so far this code kinda of works, the only problem is that I don't know how to talk to the dots once created inside the for loop, so I can replace them.

// (user setings, will be changed latter for database values)
var xpos 		= -385;
var ypos 		= 88;
var yspace 		= 5;


// Duplicate the dots and place them apart on the X & Y axis
for (i=1; i<=finalCountNum; i++) {
	duplicateMovieClip(_root.navigation.main.map.dot, "dot"+i, i);

	var dotPath = "_root.navigation.main.map.";
	var dotName = "dot" + i;
	dotFullPath = dotPath + dotName;

	dotFullPath._x = xpos;
	dotFullPath._y = ypos;
	
	ypos += yspace;

}

[ARSA]

I answered my own question, this code do the job.

// (user setings, will be changed latter for database values)
var xpos 		= -385;
var ypos 		= 88;
var yspace 		= 5;


// Duplicate the dots and place them apart on the X & Y axis
for (i=1; i<=finalCountNum; i++) {
	// duplicate movie clip
	duplicateMovieClip(_root.navigation.main.map.dot, "dot"+i, i);
	
	// organize the clones
	setProperty("_root.navigation.main.map.dot"+i, _x, xpos);
	setProperty("_root.navigation.main.map.dot"+i, _y, ypos);
	
	// Add more space
	ypos += yspace;

}