Tween with path animation

hi,
I am Flash Action 2 Beginner.
can some one help me out for creating the animation with
Tween and path
I have created path as circle and I want to move the my
movie clip alogn with the path in circular maner countinously.
It is to be done by frame animation but it wnat to do it by
tween class.
Thanks in Advance.

i don't think you will be able to do this with the tween
class since you can only use a single property at a time, moving
from point A to B, although you can use multiple tweens (ie. x and
y) it still is a matter of the calculation being linear.
however if you wish to move an object using code, you can
make the position calculation and move the instance continuously
using a onEnterFrame event, as in:

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