you can create a Flex component from Flash 9 and that would help with the bandwidth. If you need to duplicate it, you'll have to use "addChild(ship)". It's addChild in AS3 so it's that way in Flash as well as Flex.
Mark --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "philheinz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all - I am loading a ship diagram (flash 9 swf) into a SWFLoader. I > would like to duplicate that clip for use on multiple screens within > our InteliSea application. Currently all SWFLoaders are loading over > http individually which is a COLOSSAL waste of time and bandwidth. > > I can get the loaded content into a MovieClip object, but how do I > then duplicate it to apply to other SWFLoaders? > > AS2-3 Migration guide says duplicateMovieClip has been "Replaced by > new MovieClip class constructor function." I like to think of myself > as fairly smart, but that description doesn't do it for me. I guess > I'm not as smart as I thought. > > Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks! Phil >