problems with createemptymovieclip and setinterval

[skabszo]

to be honest im beginner in As3. I used to script my flash sites in as2. But for this day i must migrate to v.3 of AS. And i have some problems here.

#1

creating emptymovieclips and loading into them some content was quite easy in as2:

_root.createEmptyMovieClip("kontener",1);
kontener._x=10;
kontener._y=10;
kontener.loadmovieclip("instancename");

in as3 i have sth like that:

var mc:MovieClip = new MovieClip();
mc.x=80;
mc.y=10;
addChild(mc);

but what i need to do next?

#2 my second problems is with setinterval. I have for example two mc's on my stage. Both of them has in first and last frame stop();. I want to do sth like that:

- some delay in ms
- action of mc#1
- delay again ( diffrent time than in first time)
- action of mc#2

etc

how can i do it in as3? maybe im wrong but i think that v3 is much more complicated that prvious versions of as..

[ultravisual]

you would need to user a timer?

mc.stop();
var timer:Timer = new Timer(500, 0); // first param is delay in microseconds
timer.addEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, firstMC);
timer.start();

function firstMC(e:TimerEvent):void
{
  timer.stop();
  timer.removeEventListener(TimerEvent.TIMER, firstMC);
  mc.play();
} 

Shane