Trying to get a target to a movie stored to a variable

Question

hope i can make myself undestandable
i have several movieclips in flash that are being trigged by
clicking on them
i'm using 2 variables to store what movieclip is playing and
another to store it's path. in the main timeline i declare them and
make the 2nd to evalute as a path, using eval(). this works fine,
but when i try to use this when i click on the movieclip, the eval
dosen't work, making my 2nd variable evaluting to undefined...
code:
### on main time line: ###
var variavel = a;
var variavel2 = eval(variavel);
trace (variavel2); //---> results _level0.a
variavel2.stop();
### on a clipmovie ###
on(release){
_root.variavel = b;
_root.variavel2 = eval(variavel);
trace (_root.variavel2); //---> results undefined
variavel2.play();
can anyone explain me why? and any solution to this?
thanks in advance

Answer 1

a lil modification in ur movieclip code ll ve ur code working
for u ..As u r using ur code on ur movie clip or clips u ve to b
very specific about targeting em...for eg u r using _root.variavel
= b; in on(Release) the flash wont understand that...either write
_root.variavel = _root.b or _root.variavel = this.b...change
ur movie clip code to the following code n u r done
on (release) {
_root.var1 = _root.b;
_root.var2 = eval(_root.var1);
trace(_root.var2);
//---> results undefined
_root.var2.play()
i ve used var1 and var2 instead of variavel and variavel2
respectively..hope wid this ur problem ll get solved