You can't just use the loadMovie function, oh no! But this works perfectly: import flash.net.URLRequest; import flash.display.Loader; import flash.events.Event; import flash.events.ProgressEvent; function startLoad() { var mLoader:Loader = new Loader(); var mRequest:URLRequest = new URLRequest(“MouseActions.swfâ€); mLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onCompleteHandler); mLoader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(ProgressEvent.PROGRESS, onProgressHandler); mLoader.load(mRequest); } function onCompleteHandler(loadEvent:Event) { addChild(loadEvent.currentTarget.content); } function onProgressHandler(mProgress:ProgressEvent) { var percent:Number = mProgress.bytesLoaded/mProgress.bytesTotal; trace(percent); } startLoad()... Continue Reading →

If you are using a movieclip as a button and want the hand cursor to appear when it is rolled over, for each MovieClip, set the property "buttonMode" to true. myMC.buttonMode = true; Or you can continue to use the SimpleButton class - which does it automatically.

Found this great wee piece of code that'll let you return all the items in a movieclip. var target_mc:MovieClip = this; for (var i:uint = 0; i < target_mc.numChildren; i++){ trace ('\t|\t ' +i+'.\t name:' + target_mc.getChildAt(i).name + '\t type:' + typeof (target_mc.getChildAt(i))+ '\t' + target_mc.getChildAt(i)); } Source: http://www.matthijskamstra.nl/blog/index.php/2008/04/30/as2-to-as3-get-all-objects-in-a-movieclip/

The below code will make an object instance name 'objectMC' a bit brighter on mouse over, and back to normal on mouseOut. This uses colorTransform, see below and have a play with the values. You can also use 'redMultiplier' in tandem with 'redOffset' to create different effects, but just adding some to all 3 color... Continue Reading →