this is probably a real newbie question but in action scripting i always see people use { and } can someone tell me what those mean and when they should be used? thx very much 
{} curly brackets like these are used to encapsulate a section of code. This usually occures when scripting a function and sometimes with other methods. Below is an example.
If (this==that){
doThis();
}
in this case I’ve used them with an ‘if’ statement. If the variable “this” is equal to “that”, then do whatever is inside the {}.
creating a function is done similarly.
function doThis(){
myMovieClip._x++;
}
in this case I’ve defined a function called ‘doThis’. It says, whenever the script encounters the funtion doThis, do whatever is inside the {} brackets.
It may make more sense if you see them like the following. In any case, you may contain the whole code on a single line and it will behave exactly the same as their multiline scripts above. below are the two above scripts writen on a single line.
If (this==that){doThis();}
function doThis(){myMovieClip._x++;}
Hope that helps.
cool i getit now thx very much
