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Is there a way I can make all clones of an actor bedrawn in a canvas without listing each individual clone?
Tell me if I am not being very clear
Thanks alot

Not directly, but you can do this.

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Actor *
getCloneIdx (const char *cname, int cindex)    //g_GetCloneByIndex, its original name
{
    char buffer[50];
    sprintf(buffer,"%s.%i",cname,cindex);
    return(getclone(buffer));
}

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int i;
Actor * clone;
erase(0,0,0,1);
for(i=0;i<ActorCount("actorName");i++)
{
    clone = getCloneIdx("actorName", i);
    draw_from(clone.clonename, clone->x, clone->y, 1);
}

The xy coordinates will change for how you want it, but I think you can use screen_to_actor, or actor_to_screen, to set that up or your own variables.

What this does is go through all existing clones, by use of a for loop and the ActorCount function, and draws them. It uses each clone's xy, but this will probably not work without adjustment, otherwise you would not use draw.

thanks for replying fast, i dont know exactly how to use this but also is there a way to send an activation event to all clones? without listing them all?

Sorry, forgot to explain that. The first code block would go into global code. The second one wherever you want to have the canvas event to draw the actors. I would think in its draw. To send an ActivationEvent, it would follow the same idea. It to requires the getCloneIdx

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int i;
Actor * clone;
for(i=0;i<ActorCount("actorName");i++)
{
    clone = getCloneIdx("actorName", i);
    SendActivationEvent(clone->clonename);
}

That code goes wherever you are sending the ActivationEvent from.

-Edit
On my previous post, there is a typo, it should be this.

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int i;
Actor * clone;
erase(0,0,0,1);
for(i=0;i<ActorCount("actorName");i++)
{
    clone = getCloneIdx("actorName", i);
    draw_from(clone->clonename, clone->x, clone->y, 1);
}

Again, this is for the drawing.