reference movieClip inside another movieClip

[phpuser123]

I have my general movie clip called myscene_mc .
Inside it I've placed other 2 movie clips called man_mc and insect_mc...
Now,my man_mc contains another movieclip which is empty and i call it forward_mc...

Now,can I use forward_mc and insect_mc to check if they are intersecting using something like that ::

trace(man_mc. forward_mc.hitT est(insect_mc)

I hv tried this bt althougn they are intersecting,th e output is false

How can I check when the 2 movie are intersecting??
Any help will be kindly appreciated ..Thanks

[iamfletch]

i dont know what exactly your asking here. assuming you have a set up like the following:

var myscene_mc = new myscene_();
var man_mc  = new man_();
var insect_mc = new insect_();
var forward_mc = new MovieClip();
 
addChild(myscene_mc)
myscene_mc.addChild(insect_mc);
myscene_mc.addChild(man_mc);
man_mc .addChild(forward_mc);
 

then you can access them from here eg

//inside insect_mc
function test (var)
{
   trace (var)
}
 
// must be coded here (for the refference to insect_mc to be avalable)
man_mc.test2 = function()
{
   insect_mc('hi')
}
 

I havent debugged this, it should work

[iamfletch]

ok sorry about my previous reply, i want to delete it to be honest. not many people will be able to help here as hitTest is now obsolete(its as2 and most people are as3 now). i downgraded for you and the problem has a simple solution.

trace(man_mc.forward_mc.hitTest(insect_mc));
// change to 
trace(insect_mc.hitTest(man_mc.forward_mc)