Movie organization question

[Werner Sharp]

Hi all,


My background is in Director so I'm trying to see how to use Flash in a 

similar manner.  I have a game I'm developing with about 40 game 

pieces.   Each piece is a different graphic with different properties but 

needs the same actionScript associated with it.  In Director, I would have 

40 sprites pointing to the 40 different graphics with the same behavior 

attached but with different properties.  If I change the one behavior, all 

the game pieces get the new behavior.


So how would you do this in Flash?.  I currently have 40 MCs (to contain 

the properties) with 40 buttons (the graphic) inside of them.  Each button 

handles press and release and sends the event back to a function at the 

root level.  This function, using the context of the MC, does all the 

work.  Is this the best solution?  Or can I put something else in the 40 

MCs (like another MC) that only has one instance in the library.  Then in 

that MC, I can put the generic actionScript.  I'm trying to avoid having 40 

copies of the actionScript around while still keeping a nice 

object-oriented framework in place.


Thanks for any information.


Werner Sharp

sharpwbellsouth [dot] net