# Identifying movieclip using another movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/identifying-movieclip-using-another-movieclip/228550>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 8, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/identifying-movieclip-using-another-movieclip/228550 "2007-06-08T19:56:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![jcg31](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@jcg31](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jcg31)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2007, 7:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/identifying-movieclip-using-another-movieclip/228550/1 "2007-06-08T19:56:24Z")

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Is there a way to identify a movieclip by its relationship to another. That is to say I have one movie clip “ball\_mc” that moves randomly around the screen over photos (photo1\_mc, photo2\_mc . . .), I want as ball\_mc passes over a photo?\_mc for a textbox to display the name of that particular photo?\_mc. Can someone point me in the right direction?  
Thanks!