# Calling a function within a onLoad

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-a-function-within-a-onload/190735>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 14, 2006, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-a-function-within-a-onload/190735 "2006-06-14T10:30:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![CooganA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@CooganA](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/CooganA)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2006, 10:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-a-function-within-a-onload/190735/1 "2006-06-14T10:30:09Z")

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I’m trying to call a function with a onLoad function in a Class

Any reason why this doesn’t work?

XML\_var.onLoad = function(success) {  
anotherFunction();  
}

Thanks