# Accessing functions on the root timeline

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-functions-on-the-root-timeline/239254
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 19, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-functions-on-the-root-timeline/239254 "2007-09-19T22:45:46Z")
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### Author: ![theonlycarmire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@theonlycarmire](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/theonlycarmire)
#### Post date: [September 19, 2007, 10:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-functions-on-the-root-timeline/239254/1 "2007-09-19T22:45:46Z")

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What I have is a movieclip that is nested within a movieclip on my main stage.

My question is, is there a way that I can access a function that is written on my root stage from within that movieclip?

In AS2 all you had to do was something like

```auto
_root.myFunction();

```

And that was it. Not the case in 3.0??

Is there a quick solution?

-Carmire