Loadmovie in AS#

Dear my friends
I have one .as file named Hanif.as with the following codes :
package {
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.display.*;
import flash.events.*;
public class Hanif {
function Hanif():void {
var i:Loader =new Loader();
//var mc:MovieClip=new MovieClip();
i.load(new URLRequest("F2.swf"));
addChild(i);
trace("Hi");
and I have one .fla file next to this .as file with the
following code in frame one :
var Hanifobj:Hanif=new Hanif();
but when I run the .fla file it has the following error :
1180: Call to a possibly undefined method addChild.
Please help me.
Thanks.

It did not work or you get the same error?
Also, I think you need to declare constructor public. Return
type cannot be used in the constructor because constructor returns
an instance of the class.

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message news:e3fubd$54$[email protected]..
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PSEudoCODE
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