# Accessing Nested MovieClips

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-nested-movieclips/280826
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 1, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-nested-movieclips/280826 "2009-02-01T21:33:07Z")
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### Author: ![boyceofreason](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ebca7d/32.png) [@boyceofreason](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/boyceofreason)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2009, 9:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-nested-movieclips/280826/1 "2009-02-01T21:33:07Z")

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Hello, I’m fairly new to AS3 and going through the woes of moving from AS2 on a new app. I have a mc(which has my buttons and instance names) in the library, which I attach to the stage. I’ve added a faux linkage class as StickyNote. But I’m having issue accessing those button instances so I can add events etc.

```auto
navCont.addChild(new StickyNote());
trace(navCont.getChildByName('eventsbtn'));

```

The nav appears and the button rollovers function, but the trace comes back null. I’ve also tried just straight dot notation, no luck.