Creating an empty movie clip

To create an empty movie clip on the Stage, use the createEmptyMovieClip() method of the MovieClip class. This method creates a movie clip as a child of the clip that calls the method. The registration point for a newly created empty movie clip is the upper left corner.

For example, the following code creates a new child movie clip named new_mc at a depth of 10 in the movie clip named parent_mc.

parent_mc.createEmptyMovieClip("new_mc", 10);

The following code creates a new movie clip named canvas_mc on the root Timeline of the SWF file in which the script is run, and then invokes loadMovie() to load an external JPEG file into itself.

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("canvas_mc", 10);
canvas_mc.loadMovie("flowers.jpg");

For more information, see MovieClip.createEmptyMovieClip().