# Connecting code with a movie clip down the timeline

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connecting-code-with-a-movie-clip-down-the-timeline/218179
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**Created:** [March 5, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connecting-code-with-a-movie-clip-down-the-timeline/218179 "2007-03-05T18:40:57Z")
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### Author: ![dalewb](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/dalewb/32/3029_2.png) [@dalewb](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dalewb)
#### Post date: [March 5, 2007, 6:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/connecting-code-with-a-movie-clip-down-the-timeline/218179/1 "2007-03-05T18:40:57Z")

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I have some code that is attempting to interact with a movieclip that resides further down the timeline, but can’t seem to do so no matter what I do. I’ve tried absolute and relative addressing, I’ve even sent the playhead to that frame before attempting to interact with the movieclip - nothing works. Am I going crazy here or am I missing some key ingredient? Please refer to the attached image - it shows the location on the main timeline where the code is (1) and where the MC is (2).

I will post a code snippet here:

```auto
function handleLoginResponse(re:ResultEvent){
    trace("<handleLoginResponse>: we called login succesfully: " + re.result + " Going to loading screen");    
    gotoAndStop("loading");// moves playhead to frame where statusMC is
    trace("statusMC current frame= " + statusMC._currentframe());// returns "undefined"
    statusMC.gotoAndStop("loading");
    // Authentication Successful
    if( re.result == '0' ) {        
        gotoAndStop("loading");    
        statusMC.gotoAndPlay("success");// these two lines 
        statusMC.firstName.text = user;// work fine for some reason.
    }    
    // Authentication Failure
    else {
        gotoAndStop("loading");
        statusMC.gotoAndStop("failure");        
    }
}

```