# addEventListener to what exactly?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/addeventlistener-to-what-exactly/294547>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 16, 2009, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/addeventlistener-to-what-exactly/294547 "2009-08-16T09:53:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![lope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/43a26b/32.png) [@lope](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lope)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2009, 9:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/addeventlistener-to-what-exactly/294547/1 "2009-08-16T09:53:38Z")

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i want to affect childMC movieClip, but any of these will give me the same rezults, or at least i think 😃

addEventListener(Event.ENTER\_FRAME, onEFrame);  
stage.addEventListener(Event.ENTER\_FRAME, onEFrame);  
parentMC.addEventListener(Event.ENTER\_FRAME, onEFrame);  
parentMC.childMC.addEventListener(Event.ENTER\_FRAME, onEFrame);

i presume the best practise is the last one?