I ran across a similar problem for an application I worked on in Actionscript 2. I had a very large image broken into 10x10 tiles. Each tile related to an image and some data. Instead of drawing a pile of boxes (or rectangles) as MovieClips, I created a Bitmap drawing that had all the tiles I needed on it (so in effect, it looked like a bunch of individual movieclips). I then created an associative array that stored the class instances I needed that correlated with each tile on the drawing, based on an x-y position (ie array['0-0'] = instance1; array['10-0'] = instance2, etc). I registered the mouse and click events against the movieclip that had the bitmap in it. As the user moved across or clicked on the bitmap I had a simple function that would calculate the tile that user had moused over or clicked on, find the necessary instance in array and then do the work that need to be done. It worked super fast, since the application was not bogged down with thousands of movieclips.
Derrick Grigg -------------- www.dgrigg.com
