# About hitTest
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-hittest/537
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 22, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-hittest/537 "2002-07-22T03:55:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@paopei](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/paopei)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2002, 3:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-hittest/537/1 "2002-07-22T03:55:16Z")
i have problem about hitTest method. i have ever attached this method to a symbol, it wouldn’t work well. even it didn’t work at all.
is there anyone can explain this.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2002, 5:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-hittest/537/2 "2002-07-22T05:23:59Z")
please explain what you’re trying to do, or attach your fla to show us. Then, we can make clearer suggestions. okey dokey?
🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2002, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-hittest/537/3 "2002-07-22T06:03:24Z")
:nerd:
i have solved it in present.
i initially used this method
mymovieclip.hitTest(targetmovie){
}
after i 've read a tutorial from the site i revealed that those script i wrote was wrong. the mistake is i typed '." (dot) before hitTest.
the correct one is not dot but comma.
so the script becomes
mymovieclip, hitTest(targetmovie){
}
i have tried it and it worked !!!
for addition i used flash mx. :ninja:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2002, 12:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-hittest/537/4 "2002-07-26T00:45:49Z")
What the hell??? That’s really weird!! As far as I know, it’s not supposed to work with commas! It’s like… An illegal operation for Flash! Or could it be that it’s different in MX? (I use 5)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2002, 9:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/about-hittest/537/5 "2002-07-26T09:10:23Z")
😛 I had the same reaction! I think that what he meant is that he did
```auto
if (movieClip,hittest(otherClip)...
```
Which is legal.
pom :asian: