# World map and instance names

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-map-and-instance-names/251923>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 13, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-map-and-instance-names/251923 "2008-02-13T23:18:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![yann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bc79bd/32.png) [@yann](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/yann)\
**Post date:** [February 13, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/world-map-and-instance-names/251923/1 "2008-02-13T23:18:48Z")

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Hi!

I just got this nicely setup FLA with a world map to which I have to add country specific behaviors via XML/Actionscript. Each country is its own clearly labeled movie clip on the stage but they don’t have any instance names…

Before I go in there and manually add to each county its own instance name, I thought I’d ask the numerous smart people on here if there’s a better (faster) way to go about this. I don’t think you can dynamically create an instance name from a movie clip’s name in the library so that’s out, but I"m thinking maybe there’s another workaround I just haven’t thought about…

Anyway, worth a shot 😉 Thanks for any insight you can provide!