# Prototypes for components
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prototypes-for-components/58733
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 25, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prototypes-for-components/58733 "2004-07-25T18:31:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jerez\_z](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jerez_z)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2004, 6:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prototypes-for-components/58733/1 "2004-07-25T18:31:31Z")
How to you assign prototypes to components?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 25, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prototypes-for-components/58733/2 "2004-07-25T23:57:39Z")
I guess you have to use
```auto
MovieClip.prototype.myfunction=function(){
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2004, 1:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prototypes-for-components/58733/3 "2004-07-26T01:55:02Z")
crap… I guess that would work… but theres no way to assign a prototype to a specific component?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2004, 7:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prototypes-for-components/58733/4 "2004-07-26T07:44:02Z")
As far as I know, prototypes exist in classes, not in components. What you could do of course is use a class for a component, then assign prototypes to that class.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 26, 2004, 12:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/prototypes-for-components/58733/5 "2004-07-26T12:48:30Z")
oh ya…makes sense…thanx guys