# Delayed child constructor

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delayed-child-constructor/292609>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 16, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delayed-child-constructor/292609 "2009-07-16T11:33:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![StridBR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/71e660/32.png) [@StridBR](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/StridBR)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2009, 11:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/delayed-child-constructor/292609/1 "2009-07-16T11:33:25Z")

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I have a timeline instanced movieclip which i’m calling a method on its parents movieclip constructor

problem is that even though the object already exists, its methods are “undefined”, i have put some traces in, and noticed the child constructor is calling after its parent constructor…

any ideas? its been some time i havent messed with as2, and it looks weird…