# Dynamic access of a MovieClip created on stage in Flash

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**Created:** [March 26, 2010, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-access-of-a-movieclip-created-on-stage-in-flash/307023 "2010-03-26T10:23:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 26, 2010, 10:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dynamic-access-of-a-movieclip-created-on-stage-in-flash/307023/1 "2010-03-26T10:23:53Z")

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Hello guys,  
I am confronted with a simply yet annoying problem:

I manually created a row of MovieClips inside another movieclip »container\_mc« on the stage in the Flash CS4 Editor. The MovieClips are named in the same convention (eg. target\_1\_mc, target\_2\_mc, …target\_200\_mc).

When I try to access a property of it via AS3 during runtime of the SWF like this, it works:

container\_mc.target\_0\_mc.alpha = 0;

But how do I access the MovieClip dynamically? During runtime, a script will determine of which MovieClip i need to access a property. I will get the ID number of the MovieClip I want to access. So I need to be able to to something like this:

var mc\_ID:int = 2;

[“container\_mc.target\_”+mc\_ID+\_mc""].alpha = 0;

Obviously, that doesn’t work. When I would create all the target-MovieClips dynamically at runtime, I would simply put them in an array. But in this case I need to work with the existing MovieClips manually created in the Flash Editor.

Any ideas would be highly appreciated!!