# Flex. Calling methods on embedded movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flex-calling-methods-on-embedded-movieclip/257562>\
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**Created:** [April 15, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flex-calling-methods-on-embedded-movieclip/257562 "2008-04-15T12:25:07Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flex-calling-methods-on-embedded-movieclip/257562/1 "2008-04-15T12:25:07Z")

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I have a flex application that makes use of an animated throbber (loading graphic) that I created in flash cs3. The throbber is embedded in the flex app at compile time and implemented through an mx:Image component. I simply want to be able to stop the animation of the embedded movieclip. I thought throbber.stop() would do it (throbber is the ID of my mx:Image component). I was wrong. This seems to only work with dynamically loaded swfs. Does anyone know how to call methods on embedded movieclips? Thanks in advance.