# Am I trying to do the impossible?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/am-i-trying-to-do-the-impossible/257907
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 18, 2008, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/am-i-trying-to-do-the-impossible/257907 "2008-04-18T08:13:52Z")
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### Author: ![Maqrkk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/35a633/32.png) [@Maqrkk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Maqrkk)
#### Post date: [April 18, 2008, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/am-i-trying-to-do-the-impossible/257907/1 "2008-04-18T08:13:52Z")

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Hello,

I’ve been trying to get this to work lately but somehow I can’t get it to work. Then it crossed my mind that it might not be possible, but I think it’s definately possible, so I post this for confirmation.

I have a very simple file with 1 ball in the library.  
I have a document class called Control (which is the root object, right??).  
I have one other class called Ball, associated with the ball.

Now I’m trying to understand the following. I made the ball in Control using:

```auto
this.addChild(_ball);

```

Then shouldn’t it be possible to do

```auto
trace(this.parent);

```

in the Ball function in the Ball class? It returns null;