# Why doesn't this work inside a MC?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-this-work-inside-a-mc/12194>\
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**Created:** [January 28, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-this-work-inside-a-mc/12194 "2003-01-28T04:43:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![nunaat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@nunaat](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nunaat)\
**Post date:** [January 28, 2003, 4:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-this-work-inside-a-mc/12194/1 "2003-01-28T04:43:23Z")

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So this draggable menu thing works well on it’s own.  
But when inside a Movie Clip it goes nuts?

WHY?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2003, 7:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-this-work-inside-a-mc/12194/2 "2003-01-29T07:51:23Z")

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I think you have a timeline issue, but I am not sure. I’ll bump this though as it is somewhat interesting.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-doesnt-this-work-inside-a-mc/12194/3 "2003-01-29T16:14:59Z")

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Also, I should say that I tried to modify the paths of the script to work inside the MC (instance name of “mainbox”).

I thought I had done it all but it still wasn’t quite right. So I included the .fla in it’s original unmodified form.

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