# Flash 9 / AS3 - calling MovieClips on Stage?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-9-as3-calling-movieclips-on-stage/192816
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 1, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-9-as3-calling-movieclips-on-stage/192816 "2006-07-01T14:55:44Z")
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### Author: ![joakimlinden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/51bf81/32.png) [@joakimlinden](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/joakimlinden)
#### Post date: [July 1, 2006, 2:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-9-as3-calling-movieclips-on-stage/192816/1 "2006-07-01T14:55:44Z")

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I’ve just downloaded Flash 9 Public Alpha and I’m trying some new stuff. I would like to change the scale of a MovieClip instance that I’ve physically created and dragged onto Stage but the compiler doesn’t recognize the mc instance…

Do I need to do something beyond just referencing the clip? :  
myMovieClip.\_yscale = 10;

Brrr, I have a haunting feeling that AS3 will be too intimidating for me to even begin to try learning, I can’t really grasp AS2 yet…