Animating dynamic move clips.

I have an unknown number of movie clips tat are added
dynamically. I can add them fine but i want to add them so they
appear off stage at a random x, y pos and then slide in and ease up
to another random spot on the screen. So each time the movie is
loaded it looks lik someone has thrown a bunch of photos out on a
table and they slide and spread to random locations and ease to a
stop. Anyone have any clues? i have found a number of tutorials but
would like some extra help/explanations.
Cheers.

very basically, it should be something like -
once a MC is loaded place it randomly offstage, and then
using the Tween
class move it to a random location on stage.
for further information, read the help files about 'random'
and 'tween'.
good luck,
eRez
www.allofme.com
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>I have an unknown number of movie clips tat are added
dynamically. I can
>add
> them fine but i want to add them so they appear off
stage at a random x, y
> pos
> and then slide in and ease up to another random spot on
the screen. So
> each
> time the movie is loaded it looks lik someone has thrown
a bunch of photos
> out
> on a table and they slide and spread to random locations
and ease to a
> stop.
> Anyone have any clues? i have found a number of
tutorials but would like
> some
> extra help/explanations.
>
> Cheers.
>

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