# Help with linking external class

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-linking-external-class/239691>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 24, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-linking-external-class/239691 "2007-09-24T21:45:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![VP1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ecd19e/32.png) [@VP1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/VP1)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2007, 9:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-linking-external-class/239691/1 "2007-09-24T21:45:25Z")

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Hey guys,  
Not exactly sure how to phrase this question - I’ve been having trouble searching for answers for hours. This is for AS 2.0. Basically the situation is that I’ve created a MovieClip in flash graphically (dragging textfields and labels into the gui and then using convert to symbol -\> movie clip).

The idea is that I would then link this clip to an external class which would contain code for interacting with this clip.

After linking the class successfully, I went to writing the code. Now I’m trying to compile and I’m getting all sorts of errors, for example on a textfield in the clip, tx\_Agree, I try to do

tx\_Agree.htmlText = percentage + “% Agree”;

and the compiler complains

There is no property with the name ‘tx\_Agree’.

In flash, the instance name for this text field is definitely set to tx\_Agree. The same goes for all the other components in this clip - I have given each an instance name, but none are accessible from the external class which I have linked to the clip. Help please!