Looping though objects on the stage

programming flash
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In AS2, if I needed to access all the movieclips on the stage, I could do this:

for (var i in this) {
if (typeof (this*) == “movieclip”) {
do stuff
}
}

with the preceeding code written on the root.

I’m having all kinds of trouble trying to do the same thing in AS3.

The movie clips I’m attempting to access have been manually placed on the stage. They’re not beind added via “addChild”, if that makes a difference.