# How to createEmptyMovieClips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-createemptymovieclips/263660>\
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**Created:** [June 18, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-createemptymovieclips/263660 "2008-06-18T02:18:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Gar\_Fonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@Gar\_Fonz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gar_Fonz)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 2:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-createemptymovieclips/263660/1 "2008-06-18T02:18:50Z")

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I haven’t been able to figure out to how do what createEmptyMovieClip does in AS 2.0 in AS 3.0. The documentation says to use the new operator, but it doesn’t have the same ability to create new names on the fly. Has anyone come up with a class or code that accomplishes dynamic naming?

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**Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 5:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-createemptymovieclips/263660/2 "2008-06-18T05:22:09Z")

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```auto
var myMC:MovieClip = new MovieClip();

```

And if you wanna create a bunch:

```auto
var mc:MovieClip;
for(var i:int = 0; i < 3; i++) {
     mc = new MovieClip();
     mc.name = "myMC" + i;
}

```

And to access them:

```auto
getChildByName("myMC" + i);

```

But I would reccomend just storing them all in an array.

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**Author:** ![Gar\_Fonz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/df705f/32.png) [@Gar\_Fonz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Gar_Fonz)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 5:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-createemptymovieclips/263660/3 "2008-06-18T05:42:36Z")

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thanks alot, you helped me out of a jam - big time.

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**Author:** ![TheCanadian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@TheCanadian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/TheCanadian)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2008, 6:20am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-createemptymovieclips/263660/4 "2008-06-18T06:20:35Z")

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No prob :hoser: