Working with movie clips

The MovieClip class is the core class for animation and movie clip symbols created in Adobe Flash CS3 Professional. It has all the behaviors and functionality of display objects, but with additional properties and methods for controlling a movie clip's timeline. This chapter explains how to use ActionScript to control movie clip playback and to create a movie clip dynamically.

Contents

Basics of movie clips

Controlling movie clip playback

Creating MovieClip objects with ActionScript

Loading an external SWF file

Example: RuntimeAssetsExplorer