# Calling other movieClips inside other movieClips
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-other-movieclips-inside-other-movieclips/58604
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 23, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-other-movieclips-inside-other-movieclips/58604 "2004-07-23T23:55:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Behemoth\_Dan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Behemoth_Dan)
#### Post date: [July 23, 2004, 11:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-other-movieclips-inside-other-movieclips/58604/1 "2004-07-23T23:55:25Z")
The problem I am having is a little moe signifcant than what the titles suggests.
What I am trying to do is to determine whether a movieClip, which is nested inside another a movieClip hits another moviceClip, which, you guessed it, is inside another movieClip.
Something along the lines of this:
```auto
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if( _root.character.charNose_mc.hitTest( this )){
_root.character._x -= _root.char_speed;
}
}
```
Obviously this code is not working. The movieClip the hitTest( this ) is referring to is inside another movieClip. And charNose\_mc is nested inside character at the root level. As you can tell, the goal of this code is to move the character movieClip in a negative direction using a predefined variable called char\_speed.
Any ideas on what I am doing wrong, or what is the proper way to format this code? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2004, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-other-movieclips-inside-other-movieclips/58604/2 "2004-07-24T20:20:17Z")
I believe it might work, but what do I know…
Another appoach might be a more mathematically one.
Write a function that tracks the location’s and bounderies of given mc’s and let it return the information for processing.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2004, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/calling-other-movieclips-inside-other-movieclips/58604/3 "2004-07-24T20:40:02Z")
First highlight the charNose\_mc clip. Then apply this code:
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
if(this.hitTest(\_root.some\_clip)){ //\_root.some\_clip should be the path of your other movie clip.
\_root.character.\_x -= \_root.char\_speed;
}
}