# Shadow Filter

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/shadow-filter/189620
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 4, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/shadow-filter/189620 "2006-06-04T18:51:38Z")
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### Author: ![sepu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@sepu](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sepu)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2006, 6:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/shadow-filter/189620/1 "2006-06-04T18:51:38Z")

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ok how can you do this, for example let say that I want to use the Shadow filter in Flash 8 in my whole SWF … so in the first frame I got this .

```auto

import flash.filters.*; 
var ds:DropShadowFilter = new DropShadowFilter(0,90,0x000000,1,10,10,1,3,false,false,false); 
middleCube.filters = [ds];

```

and what happend here is that I just can use this when the code and the MC (middleCube) are in the same frame … so if i have this movie clip called “middleCube” in another frame or inside another MC how can use the same Var [ds] without repeating the all the above (import falsh.filters.\*; … etc ) in the other parts of my movie as well ?  
there is anyway to do this.

thanks.