Access child clips of loded SWF

I have a class (Main.as) that uses a Loader object to load an
external SWF in to the root of my main app. I then want to pass a
reference to the loaded SWF to another class in my main app so that
it can access clips on the main timeline of the loaded SWF.
Currently I use a Loader to load the SWF with a handler for
EVENT.INIT, in the INIT handler I send the Loader object to another
class using Event.target.loader.
The second class receives the Loader object and it is here
that I want to use addChild to add a Shape to the loaded SWF and
set it as a mask on a clip on the SWFs timeline. I thought I was
getting there using:
loaderObject.content["clipName"].parent.addChild(maskShape;
but when this runs I get a #1010: A term is undefined and has
no properties.
I am pretty new to AS3 so am quite likely going about this in
a pretty kak handed way so if anyone has any ideas in general on
accessing the child clips and properties of externally loaded SWF
files I would love to hear them.
Thanks a lot all

loaderObject.content is the main timeline of your loaded swf.
if clipName is a child of that main timeline,
loaderObject.content["clipName"] will reference that child.
therefore, loaderObject.content["clipName"].parent will
reference you external swf's main timeline. and then you are trying
to add maskShape to your external swf's main timeline.
where's maskShape? that needs to be accessible to the class
that's executing your code (and it's clearly not, or you wouldn't
receive that error).
but beyond that error, i think you're doing things you don't
intend.

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