# Cannot call \_root movie clip from a child movieClip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-call--root-movie-clip-from-a-child-movieclip/299687>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 9, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-call--root-movie-clip-from-a-child-movieclip/299687 "2009-11-09T17:34:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![mhb11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@mhb11](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mhb11)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 5:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/cannot-call--root-movie-clip-from-a-child-movieclip/299687/1 "2009-11-09T17:34:03Z")

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Hi this is the scenario:

I have two scenes : Menu,Game

A movieClip: MenuScreen ( called through attachChild )

A button : Start Game ( Inside menuScreen )

The button StartGame calls a function on the root to play the next scene. This situation works fine, but if I try to use menuScreen (movieClip) somewhere else ( create an instance ) the first StartButton stops working.

Any Ideas?

FahimAkhter