# Horribly embarrassed to ask, but

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/horribly-embarrassed-to-ask-but/317478>\
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**Created:** [December 22, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/horribly-embarrassed-to-ask-but/317478 "2010-12-22T05:16:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![JamminBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/76d3ee/32.png) [@JamminBill](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JamminBill)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 5:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/horribly-embarrassed-to-ask-but/317478/1 "2010-12-22T05:16:30Z")

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…I must because I simply can’t figure it out.

All I want to do is have a scrollPane component on the stage and within that component I would like to have a movieclip that is essentially a list, and each list item is a button to be clicked on. I have no problem doing this if I have buttons within a movieclip, but having them in a scrollPane produces the following error:

1119: Access of possibly undefined property mcButtons through a reference with static type fl.containers:ScrollPane.

It seems that I am unable to use the scrollPane component as if it were a movieclip and to use dot syntax to access it’s content.

What simple little thing am I missing here?