# Movieclip on stage depth control

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-on-stage-depth-control/319526>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 23, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-on-stage-depth-control/319526 "2011-02-23T19:02:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![outback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9f8e36/32.png) [@outback](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/outback)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-on-stage-depth-control/319526/1 "2011-02-23T19:02:45Z")

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Hi all,

I have about 85 movie clips on stage and they all have startDrag with MOUSE\_DOWN.

here is the thing I need the active one to come forward to the top of all others.

can someone please HELP?

I tried using:

**setChildIndex(e.currentTarget, 85)**

on the mouse over function but its not working its giving me an error

**1118: Implicit coercion of a value with static type Object to a possibly unrelated type flash.display:DisplayObject.**

thanks