# Extending Flash - Javascript for children

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extending-flash-javascript-for-children/283498>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 6, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extending-flash-javascript-for-children/283498 "2009-03-06T22:42:13Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 6, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/extending-flash-javascript-for-children/283498/1 "2009-03-06T22:42:13Z")

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I trying to create a custom panel SWF. I have any number of movie clips on the stage. Each movie clip may contain any number of components.

The movie clips are returned as symbolInstance objects. There doesn’t appear to be any way to access the children to determine which components each symbolInstance contains. Am I missing something? Is it really impossible to determine?