# Movie Clip Array

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-array/234194>\
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**Created:** [July 31, 2007, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-array/234194 "2007-07-31T11:56:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![James001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a587f6/32.png) [@James001](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/James001)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2007, 11:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-array/234194/1 "2007-07-31T11:56:37Z")

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Hello everybody, I’m a bit stuck but think this should be a fairly easy problem to fix.  
I have arranged some movieclip instances on the stage (\_root) at author-time and would like to hold them in an array. I can’t seem to get the loop at the end of this script to work: Any help would be hugely appreciated.

Basically what want to end up with is a load in animation, by setting the array’s visibilty to false initially, then looping through a function to set each indexes visibilty to true, with a setInterval variable so that it dosen’t happen too quickly. From there I could add a tween to the loop and fade the array instances in one by one.

shapes = \_root[“eye1”,“eye2”,“nose1”,“dots1”,“lips1”];  
trace(shapes);

//apply some properties to the array  
shapes[\_root].\_xscale = 50;  
shapes[\_root].\_visible = true;

\_root.onEnterFrame = function() {  
for (var i:Number =0; i \< shapes.length; i++) {  
if (shape[\_root].hitTest(\_xmouse, \_ymouse, true)) {  
shapes[\_root].\_alpha = 50;  
}  
}  
};

Hmmmmm. Do I need to load each index into a different depth level???