# Noobish question about targeting movieclips in AS3

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/noobish-question-about-targeting-movieclips-in-as3/257447>\
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**Created:** [April 14, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/noobish-question-about-targeting-movieclips-in-as3/257447 "2008-04-14T13:06:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![geter712](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9d8465/32.png) [@geter712](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/geter712)\
**Post date:** [April 14, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/noobish-question-about-targeting-movieclips-in-as3/257447/1 "2008-04-14T13:06:51Z")

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I’m experienced AS2 veteran who needs quick migration to AS3 :cop: so I need to know if there is some better solution to call movie clip inside of other clip than “getChildByName”. When I manually create movie clip (“clip\_1” for example) on the stage using flash IDE and place another movie clip (“clip\_2”) inside of first one I can call clip\_2 via dot between objects: clip\_1.clip\_2.x=100. But if I wanna do this dynamically I will have to create new library item and give it “clip\_2” linkage (class name) so it will be this way:

clip\_1 = new MovieClip();  
clip\_1.addChild(new clip\_2);  
clip\_1.getChildAt(0).name=‘clip\_2’;  
clip\_1.getChildByName(‘clip\_2’).x=100

[LEFT]so is there another way of calling dynamically created (nested) movie clip then ‘getChildByName’? Also I need to know if it is possible to name new clip instance created via addChild() during its creation. Something like clip\_1.addChild(new clip\_2,“clip\_2”)?  
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