# Accessing stage instances from within the main constructor class?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-stage-instances-from-within-the-main-constructor-class/298882>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 26, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-stage-instances-from-within-the-main-constructor-class/298882 "2009-10-26T18:49:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![darren884](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac8455/32.png) [@darren884](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/darren884)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/accessing-stage-instances-from-within-the-main-constructor-class/298882/1 "2009-10-26T18:49:37Z")

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Hi my movie is linked to an external class called game, and in the game cosntructor I am trying to access instances on my stage. I have tried MovieClip(root).instancename, root.instancename and even tried adding an event listener to listen when the movie is done loading because I thought maybe it was because the instances on the stage weren’t created before the constructor is ran. What am I doing wrong? This is the main class, shouldn’t it be easy? Thanks :ko: