# Root hassle

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/root-hassle/242234
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 23, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/root-hassle/242234 "2007-10-23T22:27:20Z")
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### Author: ![la\_Swear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecae2f/32.png) [@la\_Swear](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/la_Swear)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2007, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/root-hassle/242234/1 "2007-10-23T22:27:20Z")

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greetings.

trying to get a “close me” movie clip to accomplish two things:

[LIST]  
[_]turn off the visibility of the movie clip it’s on  
[_]turn ON the visibility of a different movie clip on the root layer  
(in the example below it’s called “instructionHelp”)[/LIST]I’ve tried all sorts of code, but nothing works. instinct says this:

```auto
parent.instructionHelp.visible = true;

```

obviously…that’s wrong - any ideas?