anyone know how to get animated movie clips to play on the stage?

[grellin]

I've read everything I could find on movie clips in the Flash help section, and I've tried using the 'tell target' action script according to the Flash help. I've basically tried everything I could fathom actually, all to no avail. Is there a simple way to get an animated movie clip to play? What I want to do is have little glowing balls (several instances of a short animated movie clip that loops), moving around on the stage. Please help me!

[Jesse]

See these tutorials if you haven't already:
http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials/beginner/instances/index.shtml

http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials/beginner/paths/index.shtml

http://www.actionscripts.org/tutorials/beginner/Controlling_Different_TimeLines/index.shtml

Once you know your MC's path and instance name.. let's say it's "_root.mcName" it should be as simple as having the following action in a keyframe or on a button on the main stage:

_root.mcName.play();

Cheers

Jesse