adressing all similar movieclips

Hope i've made myself a tad more specific here:

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=15&catid=288&threadid=1394015&enterthread=y

Well it really depends upon what you mean by the first bit. It sounds like you might want to make your Class and then instances of that class will all inherit the same properties, methods, and events. But it is hard to know without more detail.

And the same for the second part of your question as well. I'm not sure what a framebased alternative to hitTest would be. Or why you would want an alternative to hitTest. It all depends upon what types of collisions you are trying to check for. Grant Skinner has a very nice Collision class that uses bitmaps. There is some really good math out there for other types of checks.

So in the end you need to be more specific.