I've been doing tutorials and such learning how to use flash, I'm not too familiar with everything in it just yet. I was trying to practice some action script, and for some reason when I draw something and convert it to a movie clip, I'm not able to add any actionscript to it. I tried looking at some tutorials to see if I'm missing something, but I just don't see it. I'm using CS4, does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

when you have the movieclip or button selected, press f9 to open the actionscript panel. if the object you want is not selected, it will go straight onto the frame.

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when you have the movieclip or button selected, press f9 to open the actionscript panel. if the object you want is not selected, it will go straight onto the frame.

I have the action window up and everything, and the movieclip is selected on the stage. But in the actionscript panel it says "Current selection cannot have actions applied to it". This is happening to all my movieclips, is there a step I'm missing?

EDIT: I started a new document using AS 2.0 instead and didn't have this problem. What causes this to happen in 3.0?

AS 3 is designed to remove the 'this.' code and all script has to be put into the frame(s). This neatens up your script and allows you to find things more easily. In other words, CS3/CS4 has a more or less new scripting language that is based off AS 2.