# Animated 'down' state

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-down-state/14477>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 26, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-down-state/14477 "2003-02-26T21:02:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![Xadeus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Xadeus](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Xadeus)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-down-state/14477/1 "2003-02-26T21:02:48Z")

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Ok so my button needs to have an animation of the text out of the screen (sort of)

when I place a regular MC in the ‘down’ frame, you have to hold the button down for it to play out

I did the export and insert method and got skewed results too.

I just need the button, when clicked, to play through the animation once, and move on to a certain frame.

what am I not gettin’ here??

oooh soooo thank you! :pope:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2003, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/animated-down-state/14477/2 "2003-02-26T21:44:29Z")

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> I just need the button, when clicked, to play through the animation once, and move on to a certain frame.  
> what am I not gettin’ here  
> :

a button is a button, not a clip with a playable timeline…except if you make your own movieclip-button (in Flash MX).  
whatever you have in each state (4 of em) is visible as long as the state is true;  
so a clip in up will play as long as the btn is not rollover; when that happens, anything in the over state is visible etc…