# Access children of movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-children-of-movieclip/324991>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 20, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-children-of-movieclip/324991 "2011-09-20T13:59:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![jeancnicolas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7bcc69/32.png) [@jeancnicolas](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jeancnicolas)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2011, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/access-children-of-movieclip/324991/1 "2011-09-20T13:59:11Z")

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Hello,

I have multiple MCs which im creating and storing them into arrays for access. Whilst I create these MCs, I am also putting bitmaps inside them. When I access my MCs later, I wish to access these bitmaps too - but I cant seem to write the syntax to reference them.

```auto
//within my loop
mcs* = this['mc'+i];                    
this['mc'+i].addChild(this['box'+i]);

// thus later on..in another loop
mcs*.['box'+i].alpha = 0; // does not work

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// i tried
mcs*.this['box'+i]...
// and tried putting the bitmaps into an array too for reference:
mcs*bmps*.alpha = 0; // alas no success

```

any ideas … thank you