# How to use the Watch function on movie clips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-use-the-watch-function-on-movie-clips/236435>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [August 20, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-use-the-watch-function-on-movie-clips/236435 "2007-08-20T20:59:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![felipegm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@felipegm](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/felipegm)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-use-the-watch-function-on-movie-clips/236435/1 "2007-08-20T20:59:49Z")

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Hello

I was looking at [this thread](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/detecting_mouse_direction.htm) about the watch function and would like to use it to detect changes on movieclips properties.

is it possible?