# Controling all movie clips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controling-all-movie-clips/43043>\
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**Created:** [February 18, 2004, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controling-all-movie-clips/43043 "2004-02-18T07:31:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![prodigy\_blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7993a0/32.png) [@prodigy\_blue](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/prodigy_blue)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 7:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controling-all-movie-clips/43043/1 "2004-02-18T07:31:12Z")

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is there a way to refer to all movie clips on the stage or apply a function to all movie clips without applying the function to all manually?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controling-all-movie-clips/43043/2 "2004-02-18T08:37:00Z")

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yes, the function on all mc’s is do-able with prototypes:  
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/oop/AS1OOPPrototypes1.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/oop/AS1OOPPrototypes1.htm)

also, a simple example and more links here:  
[http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47510](http://www.kirupaforum.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=47510)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controling-all-movie-clips/43043/3 "2004-02-18T15:09:21Z")

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Are you talking about making methods available to all MovieClips, or every MovieClip on the stage executing that function ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controling-all-movie-clips/43043/4 "2004-02-18T16:30:40Z")

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There’s also [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/asbroadcaster.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/asbroadcaster.htm)

which is addressed a little later in the first link Kalliban put 😉 This is more of calling a function for a group of movieclips at one time rather than just letting all movieclips _have_ that function.