MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-LEARNING ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 IN FLASH Manual page 361

For example, the following code creates a new child movie clip named
10 in the movie clip named
parent_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("new_mc", 10);
The following code creates a new movie clip named
SWF file in which the script is run, and then activates
file into itself:
this.createEmptyMovieClip("canvas_mc", 10);
canvas_mc.loadMovie("http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/images/image1.jpg");
As shown in the following example, you can load the image2.jpg image into a movie clip and
use the
MovieClip.onPress()
image using
loadMovie()
to movie clip methods. To get access to movie clip methods, you must create an empty parent
movie clip and a container child movie clip. Load the image into the container and place the
event handler on the parent movie clip.
// Creates a parent movie clip to hold the container.
this.createEmptyMovieClip("my_mc", 0);
// Creates a child movie clip inside of "my_mc".
// This is the movie clip the image will replace.
my_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("container_mc",99);
// Use MovieClipLoader to load the image.
var my_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
my_mcl.loadClip("http://www.helpexamples.com/flash/images/image2.jpg",
my_mc.container_mc);
// Put event handler on the my_mc parent movie clip.
my_mc.onPress = function():Void {
trace("It works");
};
For more information, see createEmptyMovieClip (
in the ActionScript 2.0 Language Reference.
method)
For an example source file that creates and removes numerous movie clips at runtime, you can
find a sample source file, animation.fla, in the Samples folder on your hard disk
In Windows, browse to boot drive\Program Files\Macromedia\Flash 8\Samples and
Tutorials\Samples\ActionScript\Animation.
On the Macintosh, browse to Macintosh HD/Applications/Macromedia Flash 8/Samples
and Tutorials/Samples/ActionScript/Animation.
:
parent_mc
method to make the image act like a button. Loading an
replaces the movie clip with the image but doesn't give you access
new_mc
on the root timeline of the
canvas_mc
to load an external JPEG
loadMovie()
MovieClip.createEmptyMovieClip
Creating movie clips at runtime
at a depth of
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