Making actionscript global & portable

Forgive me if this is the improper forum for this question. I
am certain that if it is, someone will kindly re-direct me. What
can I say, I'm sort of a noob.
Anyway, I have a single frame .swf file that is mostly
actionscript that is triggered by a set of buttons. It works a
charm in it's monolithic form. But what I need to learn is how to
build a portable "movie clip" that would contain my actionscript
and be able to drag that item into any flash document, build some
buttons on different frames and have the script run properly.
For example, in my file I have two buttons called "iplay" and
"ipause" that, through actionscript, send data to a php file.
If I try and build a movie clip and place the AS in that and
place the buttons in another layer, they don't work.
Some gentle push in the right direction of making my work
"global" even when contained in a clip would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks!

automatiktrey,
> I have a great deal to learn here but ultimately, I
think
> you are correct.
> The big issue now is that I want to include my code into
> someone else's project which was created in ActionScript
> 1 but their work seems to deprecate to AS2 so I should
> be OK.
If they can update, that's ideal. If they can't, you can
write your
code in prototype-based classes (not "really" classes, but
conceptually
similar). I recommend AS2, don't get me wrong, but if this
code must be in
AS1, check out this other tutorial, which describes how an
object-oriented
approach can be done in AS1 (happens to be how it's done in
JavaScript,
too). Don't let the two approaches confuse you! I don't mean
the muddy the
waters at all -- just trying to give you a few more options.
http://www.debreuil.com/docs/
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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