# onClipEvent (data)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onclipevent-data/391>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 16, 2002, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onclipevent-data/391 "2002-07-16T09:07:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![pom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@pom](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pom)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2002, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onclipevent-data/391/1 "2002-07-16T09:07:27Z")

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Hey guys,  
A couple of questions :

- how do you use onClipEvent (data) ? I’ve just seen that, but I’m not sure why they put it.
- is there something equivalent in MX, like \_root.onData ?

pom :asian: