Calling a function in an attached MovieClip

Question

I am trying the following, but it seems like the function is
not getting called. If I trace it, it returns an undefined. What am
I doing wrong?
Thanks a lot for any help.
this.attachMovie("team_" + whichProfile, "team_" +
whichProfile, this.getNextHighestDepth());
var teamProfile = ["team_" + whichProfile];
this[teamProfile].fadeInPhotos();

Answer 1

var teamProfile = ["team_" + whichProfile];
this[teamProfile].fadeInPhotos();
For those two lines above, you are doing this:
1.creating an array which contains a single element which is
a string
2.trying to use the array as a string inside the array access
operator for the current timeline
what you are trying to do is this:
this["team_" + whichProfile].fadeInPhotos();
But unfortunately that won't work.
The code in the parent timeline's frame completes before the
code in the newly attached movie's frame. So the fadeInPhotos
function is not yet defined when it is being called.
You can either a) code fadeInPhotos to run on the timeline of
the attached clip...so it will run when its turn is up. or b) wait
to call it from the parent timeline.
Perhaps there are other ways too. Here is one. This is a very
'hacky' approach, I wouldn't actually use it myself ( would prefer
that the MovieClip.onLoad handler could be assigned... but it
cannot in this instance, its only for classes):