Run time depth problem

HI,
I am new to flash . i did a tutorial on movie clip depth and i am not getting the result as intended .. pls help me to find my error in code or concept.

All i was trying to is attaching a movie clip to another movie clip; all clips are there in the library and properly set to export on 1st frame for actionscript. i wrote this script on the 1st frame of my main timeline.

attachMovie("ball"," ball1",1);
ball1._x = 200;
ball1._y = 200;
ball1.attachMovie("ball", "ball2", 1);
ball1.ball2._x += 20;

but the output i got was ...

I have attached the screenshot

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a single ball shown on screen ... i dont see the second ball attached to ball1 now thats what is confusing me ...

pls help me ....

Regards
Anand

anandkanatt,

Assign the movieclip to a variable and use the variable.

Change the first line of code from...

attachMovie("ball"," ball1",1);

to

var ball1:MovieClip = attachMovie("ball"," ball1",1);

and I got it to work.

Thanks for that post... it did work out for me too .. thanks