# Annoying access problem!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/annoying-access-problem/292838>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 20, 2009, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/annoying-access-problem/292838 "2009-07-20T10:02:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![sillyfishyboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@sillyfishyboy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sillyfishyboy)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2009, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/annoying-access-problem/292838/1 "2009-07-20T10:02:13Z")

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Hiya all,

I have found that I seem to have an odd issue trying to access my movie clips from within an if statement … hopefully I am just doing something really silly that is easy to sort, but I have been baffled all weekend.

```auto

function setupBrowser(){
    if(mvNumOfVids > 5){mvCycle = true;}
    for(var i=0;i<mvNumOfVids;i++){
        var thismv:MovieClip = multibrowse.mvholder["movieThumb"+i];
        if(mvThumbs* == undefined){thismv.backupimg._alpha=100;}
        thismv._xscale = thismv._yscale = 60;
        thismv._x = 100;
        
        if(i == activemv){
            bob.text=thismv;
                                    bob.text+= multibrowse.mvholder["movieThumb"+i]._x;
            bob.text+= multibrowse.mvholder.movieThumb0._x;
        }    
    }
} 

```

basically my text field returns ‘undefinedundefinedundefined’.  
I can find multibrowse.mvholder.\_x or pretty much anything else, but never the clips I need to access. These clips are accessed by the code before the if statement though. I have even tried to assign the movieclip to a global and call this from the If statement, but I still get ‘undefined’

Any help would be much appreciated!!!