No more ROOT in Actionscript 3? Then how to do thie following???

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I discovered that you can still access the root by doing MovieClip(root).movieclip1


I do wonder however if this would also work for a externally loaded .swf

by the way. If I want to load a movie from an external .swf , then in most docs which I find they create a new movieclip, load the sxf content in it and add it as a child where it needs to be added.

Isn't there a way to load an external .swf into an allready existing movieclip on the stage ?

It is better to use Object(root).whatever
If you are dealing with a movie extending Sprite or with both you will run into problems if you use either of them. If you know it is a Sprite or MovieClip only then use Sprite(root) or MovieClip(root).

You can load and external into MovieClip you want.