# How to communicate between movie clip and stage?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-communicate-between-movie-clip-and-stage/267407
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 31, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-communicate-between-movie-clip-and-stage/267407 "2008-07-31T18:57:45Z")
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### Author: ![Pixelmech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/df788c/32.png) [@Pixelmech](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Pixelmech)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2008, 6:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-communicate-between-movie-clip-and-stage/267407/1 "2008-07-31T18:57:45Z")

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I have a flash file in which I import a SWF into an empty MC like so:

```auto
loadMovie("all-egms.swf", mySquare);

```

In the base file, I have a datagrid and a few other objects.

In the imported SWF, I click on a certain item, and I want to do something to an object in the main flash file - let’s say make the datagrid invisible.

I cannot seem to figure out the proper way to talk to the base object from the swf. I tried looking in the debug to get the object name and referencing it like so:

```auto
_level0.dataGridMain._visible = false;

```

That didn’t work, I also tried parent, which also didn’t work.

```auto
 
_parent.dataGridMain._visible = false;

```

I realize there are other ways to import clips, but I’m on a tight deadline and it has to work this way. How can I send a command to the datagrid, or any other object in the main timeline from that imported SWF?