Quickie. Just cant access any properties of a mc

programming flash
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Hi,

Sorry about this but can anyone tell me why I cannot access the alpha property of the mc called ‘newImageContainer’ below? (This is just an extract of the code):


 
var newImageContainer = new mcGroupItemHolder();
var newMc_thumbnailBG = new mc_thumbnailBG();
addChild(newImageContainer);
newImageContainer.addChild(newMc_thumbnailBG); 
newImageContainer.addChild(ldr);  

fadeInItemFocus(evnt); 
 
function fadeInItemFocus(evnt:Event):void
{
 
 tf.appendText(newImageContainer.alpha.toString());
}

Thanks a lot for any help.

Spencer