# Displaying more child nodes in news ticker

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-more-child-nodes-in-news-ticker/229980>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 21, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-more-child-nodes-in-news-ticker/229980 "2007-06-21T19:59:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mike\_Anderson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/fbc32d/32.png) [@Mike\_Anderson](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mike_Anderson)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2007, 7:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/displaying-more-child-nodes-in-news-ticker/229980/1 "2007-06-21T19:59:20Z")

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I am trying to tailor [Kirupa.com](http://Kirupa.com)’s “News Ticker” ([http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker.htm))for our website. I am also trying to learn Flash Pro 8 on the fly. The area I have to work with forces me to have the information on three lines. I have 3 movie clips set up for the lines of text. I can set up the index position after childnotes. I can rotate through all the child nodes displaying one line at a time - so the XML is set up properly. But the problem is if I try to get another movie clip going, I either get undefined, or the second movie clip is a repeat of the first one. Yes I have different names for the MC’s. Another thing, I can only name the first array “caption” or I get undefined. An array name is an array name isn’t it? Couldn’t I just name them say “date”, “happening”, “info”? Do i have to declare them all as variables? I have got to be overlooking something. How can i get this thing to display more child nodes? Any commments, suggestions are appreciated.