# Another pause MC problem :(

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-pause-mc-problem/213782
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 23, 2007, 5:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-pause-mc-problem/213782 "2007-01-23T05:42:01Z")
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### Author: ![awmaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@awmaya](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/awmaya)
#### Post date: [January 23, 2007, 5:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/another-pause-mc-problem/213782/1 "2007-01-23T05:42:01Z")

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Hello all,

Sorry for asking about this yet again, but I did do a search and after going through 6 pages of posts i still can’t get a .swf to pause. I am a noob so I prolly missed something simple.  
On the main stage I have a layer that has an empty movieclip in it called “empty\_MC”, which is the container. On another layer I have the action script with this code:

```
    empty_MC.loadMovie("fg.swf");

```

That all works well, the movie “fg.swf” loads up into the container “empty\_MC” and plays fine.  
I then have a button on the main stage called “PauseBtn” with the code:

```
   on (release) {

```

\_root.empty\_MC.stop();  
}

I have also tried other forms of the path like : \_root.empty\_MC.fg.swf.stop() but I just can’t seem to get it right. Nothing has worked so far, fg.swf just continues to play through. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you 🙂