Targeting a Movie Clip

Hello all…

I have an array which populates my stage with four different movie clips.

How do I attach ‘onRelease’ statements etc to these movie clips?

Usually I would use the ‘Target’ shortcut in the actions editor but, as the clips do not appear in the movie until it is previewed, they do not appear as targets.

Here is a section of my code so far:

var items:Array = new Array(); 
items[0] = "option1_mc"; 
items[1] = "option2_mc"; 
items[2] = "option3_mc"; 
items[3] = "option4_mc"; 

The movie clips have been linked for actionscript and appear on the screen but

option1_mc.onRelease...

etc doesn’t work.

Thanks for any help that you can offer,

David