Can I target MC on the stage using the linkage name?

Hello all,

I’m creating an interactive time line, which for our purposes now will consist of flags and poles. The flags will just contain information like “December 2004” for example. The flag MC has a linkage name of ABFlag, and for each instance of it dragged onto the stage, the pole is dynamically drawn.

The problem that I’m having is that I would like to be able to target all instances of the flag that are on the stage from an external class (not the document class), and I don’t want to add instance names to all the flags. Is there any way that I can target movieclips that are on the stage using their linkage name instead of naking instance names? I do not have the option of placing these flags on the stage dynamically.

I’m sorry that I can’t post my files at the moment. They’re on a different machine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! :panda: