Using different paths to movieclip

hi,

I want to have a script that goes something along like this… I have a moveclip on the stage. and in it… i have a variable “variable1 = true”.

the movieclip would be named “clip1”…

if it were on the maintimeline…I would reference it like this…


trace(_root.clip1.variable1)

and it would work… and it’ll trace me true…

however… what i want to do is… because the “clip1” won’t always be on the maintimeline… maybe if it were in another movieclip called “clip1234”…

i wanted to create something like this.

path = "_root.clip1234";
trace([path].clip1.variable1)

so… like this… i can easily just change the “path” variable and it’ll always know where to look for the variable…

however… this way doesn’t work…

So… I’m asking if there is a way i could make this work…

Thanks!