# currentFrame of movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/currentframe-of-movieclip/294787>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 19, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/currentframe-of-movieclip/294787 "2009-08-19T22:16:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![AcolyTe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/50afbb/32.png) [@AcolyTe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AcolyTe)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2009, 10:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/currentframe-of-movieclip/294787/1 "2009-08-19T22:16:23Z")

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Does anyone know a good way to acquire the currentFrame of a movieclip symbol placed on the main timeline? currently there is only 1 frame, but the movieclip has 50.

If i trace currentFrame, i only get 1. and tracing the child name doesnt work either.

I got it to work earlier but it crashed before i got to save and now i cant figure it out. Was something to do with making another movieclip symbol.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.