# MovieClip.onLoad dont work
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-onload-dont-work/17600
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 7, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-onload-dont-work/17600 "2003-04-07T12:25:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@tstefan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tstefan)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2003, 12:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-onload-dont-work/17600/1 "2003-04-07T12:25:08Z")
I was traying to execute this code:
\_root.attachMovie(“t”,“t”,1);
t.onLoad= function(){
trace(“spot”);
}
stop();
but nothig hapens.
why?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-onload-dont-work/17600/2 "2003-04-07T12:45:22Z")
[http://proto.layer51.com](http://proto.layer51.com)
i think there’s something about that… not sure though :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-onload-dont-work/17600/3 "2003-04-07T16:29:40Z")
in that case you dont even need the onload because the onload would be called right then anyway. t ‘loads’ right after that attachMovie line, so then you can set values that would correspond to the load values in t.
the proto site does have something for that though. I posted an onload fix there which uses 2 different methods - one a commonly known workaround (bokels) and a cheap onEnterFrame load by me 😉 Someone else also did a more complicated one using getbytes loaded etc I do believe - they posted a link to that at the bottom of my example… actually Ill link that up here:
[http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=631](http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=631)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-onload-dont-work/17600/4 "2003-04-07T16:46:32Z")
Funny thing is that it worked after I have clicked on the object and entered a blank line in action script window.
After that it worked.LOL
[AS]1…
2…
[/AS]
I think that’s funny.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 7, 2003, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movieclip-onload-dont-work/17600/5 "2003-04-07T16:51:02Z")
yes. If you put anything directly on the movieclip itself, the onLoad WILL be recognized by Flash for that movieclip. Its a queer thing that Flash does in handling onLoad… there are some other things about it, and somewhere we had an indepth discussion on its oddities (actually I dont think that was here at Kirupa - some other forum I think) - but its something that everyone hopes is rectified in the next Flash.