Noobish question about targeting movieclips in AS3

I'm experienced AS2 veteran who needs quick migration to AS3 so I need to know if there is some better solution to call movie clip inside of other clip than "getChildByName". When I manually create movie clip ("clip_1" for example) on the stage using flash IDE and place another movie clip ("clip_2") inside of first one I can call clip_2 via dot between objects: clip_1.clip_2.x=100. But if I wanna do this dynamically I will have to create new library item and give it "clip_2" linkage (class name) so it will be this way:

clip_1 = new MovieClip();
clip_1.addChild(new clip_2);
clip_1.getChildAt(0).name='clip_2';
clip_1.getChildByName('clip_2').x=100

so is there another way of calling dynamically created (nested) movie clip then 'getChildByName'? Also I need to know if it is possible to name new clip instance created via addChild() during its creation. Something like clip_1.addChild(new clip_2,"clip_2")?

As a first step to start the migration I think you should read:
http://www.senocular.com/flash/tutor...3withflashcs3/

It's a lot of reading but will get you a solid understanding of how things are done in AS3.

Regards,
Eddie

As long as you are within the same function you don't need to use getChildByName:

clip_1 = new MovieClip();
addChild(clip_1);
clip_2=new MovieClip();
clip_1.addChild(clip_2);
clip_2.x=100;