Defining Movie clips that appear later in the timeline

Question

I am trying to figure out how to reference something that
appears later in the timeline with Actionscript on the first
keyframe without receiving run time errors such as "undefined", or
"null references". Trying to define the objects using references
(ie. var myMC:MovieClip) doesn't seem to cut it. Short of placing
items on the first keyframe and then pushing them off the stage out
of view, I have yet to find an elegant solution for this. 
Help?

Ned Murphy · Answer

Controlling visibilty is an alternative to pushing things offstage. You could also preset variables to hold certain values inthe first frame and utilize them in the frame where the objectsfinally appear. The bottom line is, you can't target something thatisn't present

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