# Call function in parent movie clip

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/call-function-in-parent-movie-clip/282563
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 23, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/call-function-in-parent-movie-clip/282563 "2009-02-23T18:57:49Z")
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### Author: ![AdrianHam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bc79bd/32.png) [@AdrianHam](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AdrianHam)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2009, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/call-function-in-parent-movie-clip/282563/1 "2009-02-23T18:57:49Z")

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Dear all,

I am new to AS 3.0 and would very much appreciate some advice.

I have a child movie clip attached to the parent via the flash interface. The child is running a timer via code on its (the child’s) timeline. When the timer finishes it needs to trigger a function on the parent’s timeline. All the examples show how to trigger a function on the child - that is easy and I have got that working.

How can I get it to call the function on the parent timeline?

Thanks

Adrian