# Action by numbers

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/action-by-numbers/239861>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 26, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/action-by-numbers/239861 "2007-09-26T17:13:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![stratcat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8797f3/32.png) [@stratcat](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/stratcat)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2007, 5:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/action-by-numbers/239861/1 "2007-09-26T17:13:58Z")

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This seems like such a simple task but I seem to be going about it wrong. I want to be able to toggle on and off different movieclips in a scene with an assigned number like: 1 would make movieclip1 start and stop, 2 would make movieclip2 start and stop, etc. I got it to work with the spacebar but with that I can’t target specific movieclips. Any ideas? Thanks for your wisdom!