# Calling functions of attached Movies

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-functions-of-attached-movies/194317>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 22, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-functions-of-attached-movies/194317 "2006-07-22T04:41:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![riveroaks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/90db22/32.png) [@riveroaks](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/riveroaks)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-functions-of-attached-movies/194317/1 "2006-07-22T04:41:16Z")

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I am attaching a bunch of instances of a movieClip to my stage and I want to call a function in this movie clip that I’m attaching however I don’t seem to be able to access the movieClips functions. Is there any known reason why this may be happening, something I don’t know about attached clips? I’m doing something similar to whats below

```auto

myPointer = attachMovie("libraryName","myNewName",newLvl);
myPointer.doMyFunc();

```

I know the clip is attaching correctly because I can see it, but I can’t seem to access any functions within the attached clip. I also know that “myPointer” is correctly addressing the attached clip because I can change the clips properties such as width and height.