# Finding out when an internal movie clip is loaded?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finding-out-when-an-internal-movie-clip-is-loaded/197197>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 14, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finding-out-when-an-internal-movie-clip-is-loaded/197197 "2006-08-14T16:43:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![nvahalik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/46a35a/32.png) [@nvahalik](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nvahalik)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/finding-out-when-an-internal-movie-clip-is-loaded/197197/1 "2006-08-14T16:43:04Z")

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Alright I’ve got about 3 days of flash experience under my belt and I might be missing something obvious… so here I go:

I’ve got an Array that I use to build a menu using attachMovieClip (I used [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/xml\_dropdown\_menu.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/xml_dropdown_menu.htm) as a reference) The actual list is inside of it’s own movie clip and it loads and works perfectly.

What I’m actually trying to accomplish, though, is… how can I (from the parent movie) tell when it’s loaded and call it’s methods to add or remove items from the list. It seems like when I do… the methods don’t exist which I take to mean that the movie isn’t done loading internally. Is there a way to know when internal MCs are done loading?