MovieClip coding questions

I'm only a few days into Flash 8, and I'm a little confused
about conceptually what "MovieClips" should be, and was hoping to
get a few quick answers:
1) I was looking through the sample code and it looks like
they are creating new graphical items through this.attachMovie(),
and I'm not sure what "this" is since the code is just written in
the actions panel in frame 1. (I know what "this" means from a
programming standpoint; I'm just not sure what object scope the
code that's running there is in). What object am I "in" in code
that's just sitting around at frame 1 of the main scene timeline?
2) It says I can make a subclass of a MovieClip, which is
what I want to do to make little animated controllable characters
(e.g. "class Car extends MovieClip", but I don't understand how to
instantiate them within actionscript. According to the docs, you
don't use constructor methods to make MovieClips, but instead use
attachMovie() or createEmptyMovieClip() or duplicateMovieClip(). So
how do I make an object of class Car? attachMovie() returns a
MovieClip, and I can't cast that to a Car class.
3) Just curious how people generally organize their code (and
Symbols) with respect to MovieClips, in the case of, say a moving
car in a game application. Do MovieClips tend to represent single
animations (e.g. one MovieClip of a car with the wheels rotating
left, one where the wheels rotate right, one where it crashes, and
they get created and destroyed every time the car's state changes)?
or single objects (e.g. one MovieClip containing many short
animations along the timeline: one rolling left, one right, one
crashing, with labels and "goto" action scripts to loop animation,
etc.)?
4) What is the purpose of empty movie clips? Do people use
them like I would use a transform node in Maya or a null node in
Lightwave (e.g. just a pivot to stack transformations?)?
Thanks, and pardon the screen name - I was having issues
choosing a screenname with Firefox and tried a gibberish test in IE
and oops, it worked, and I can't figure out how to change it to a
real screenname. So apparently I am stuck as "asdfhabsaf".
Ken

1. The main timeline is itself a MovieClip. So, 'this' on the
main timeline
refers to the main timeline... It just removes any ambiguity.
2. In the library, right-click the movieClip and select
linkage. There you
click 'export for ActionScript' and the class field will
become available.
That's where you put a reference to your class.
3. Really depends on you and the projects needs.
4. Empty clips are useful for place holders, to load external
content into.
And yes, somewhat like Maya... you can load multiple clips
into one clip,
and then move all clips by moving the one parent.
Dave -
Head Developer
http://www.blurredistinction.com
Adobe Community Expert
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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