Just trying to work out if this is possible or if theres a better way to do it.

I have a Moiveclip in my library exported with the class of Circle. Inside that movieclip I have 3 nested clips, with instance names of arms, feet, eyes.

These moviclips are to act as place holders for loaded images and are animated on the timeline.

In the Main class I load in an image called image.gif and create a new instance of Circle passing the images to the constructor.

I use addChild on the Main class to add the Circle to the stage.

Inside of the Circle class I can use addChild and pass the BitmapData image. But I get a null reference when I try to use eyes.addChild but I can add it to the Circles display list with addChild fine.

My question is can you add to a nested movieclips display list and if not what would be the best way to set this up?