# Inheritance question

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/inheritance-question/321005
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 7, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/inheritance-question/321005 "2011-04-07T17:19:22Z")
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### Author: ![tbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7feea3/32.png) [@tbo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tbo)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2011, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/inheritance-question/321005/1 "2011-04-07T17:19:22Z")

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Base extends MovieClip  
document class extends Base

how would Base properly access a display object which is already placed on stage in the flash ide?

for example creating the var in Base’s class definition =  
1152: A conflict exists with inherited definition in name space public.

but just referencing the var = 1120 undefined property , as the item is only a variable of the document class

Is the only approach to let the classes load, then create the display object rather than have it on stage already?

thanks