# Help with addressing please

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-addressing-please/260969>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 21, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-addressing-please/260969 "2008-05-21T15:17:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![niroc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/aca169/32.png) [@niroc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/niroc)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 3:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-addressing-please/260969/1 "2008-05-21T15:17:27Z")

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I’ve got a problem with targeting a movie clip object within an array. I insert my movie clip into an array and want to target it from another time line. I can target it from the same time line wich the array was defined but not from another.

A short example:  
I created a new Movie clip and gave it an instance name.

Action script (2.0):  
i = new Array();  
i.push(“instanceName”);  
trace(\_root[i[0]]); //displays the instance name

But if I trace the same thing out from another time line (not in the same time line where the array was defined) it displays “undefined”.  
I use an absolute addressing so I can’t understand why it won’t work from another timeline?

if you know what’s wrong please help me.

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**Author:** ![randomagain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@randomagain](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/randomagain)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-addressing-please/260969/2 "2008-05-21T15:48:12Z")

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because stupid… hey its catch phrase

**edit**

its because the array does not exist anywhere but on the \_root., the link works but the array is not there, so the link is not there… understand

you should communicate from the \_root as standard

**what are you trying to do, that usually helps?**