# Quickie. Just cant access any properties of a mc

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quickie-just-cant-access-any-properties-of-a-mc/305116>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 19, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quickie-just-cant-access-any-properties-of-a-mc/305116 "2010-02-19T11:26:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![snape](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@snape](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/snape)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/quickie-just-cant-access-any-properties-of-a-mc/305116/1 "2010-02-19T11:26:30Z")

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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):

```auto

 
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