# Manipulating MCs attached to other MCs

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/manipulating-mcs-attached-to-other-mcs/121201>\
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**Created:** [August 31, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/manipulating-mcs-attached-to-other-mcs/121201 "2004-08-31T20:23:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Boondogger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boondogger](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Boondogger)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2004, 8:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/manipulating-mcs-attached-to-other-mcs/121201/1 "2004-08-31T20:23:04Z")

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How do you address a mc attached to another mc?

I have an array of movie clips some of which I have attached additional movie clips to. Now I need to alter scale/alpha etc of those additional movie clips.

ie.

for (i=0;i\<BasicMCArray.length;i++) {  
\_root.BasicMCArray\*.attachMovie(“myExtraMc”,“ExtraMC” + i,depth++);  
}

How do I now manipulate the “ExtraMC” movie clips? I know I can use  
\_parent to get at the parent mc but how do I get at the “child” when names are dynamically created as above?

Any advice would be much appreciated!