what do you mean when you say you have to define them as in?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-way-to-pause-multiple-movie-clips/18518/8 "2003-04-17T15:38:56Z")
opps other way round should be “in the place you have deffined in as” which mean that… if u take an example of the code
```auto
for(clips in _root){
_root.[clips].stop()
}
```
if you look the script you see that the “in” is set as the \_root which is the main timeline so at the moment the script will seach the maintime line for any movie clips regardless of their names. Then when it has done that the script then regonises them by calling them clips and then tells clips to stop… so what you rename clips to makes no difference as long as its the same in the for statment and infront of the stop() and the only inportant thing is where u have to tell the script to search for movie clips.
Well i read that all out of the flash mx bible for the first time only ½hr ago… so it might not make much sense… so… anyway… hope i helped…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2003, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-way-to-pause-multiple-movie-clips/18518/9 "2003-04-17T15:39:37Z")
> _Originally posted by jillymo_
> **are you saying that I could just use this one piece of code and it would take care of stopping all the clips without naming them all?**
yup… that’s what i said. 😉
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action\_scripts/actionscript\_dictionary/actionscript\_dictionary275.html](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/action_scripts/actionscript_dictionary/actionscript_dictionary275.html)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-way-to-pause-multiple-movie-clips/18518/10 "2003-04-17T15:42:59Z")
or yeah u could read the explaination on the macromedia site which is defiantly better than mine… anyway… i tried atleast… lol…
//Scotty//
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-way-to-pause-multiple-movie-clips/18518/11 "2003-04-17T15:54:17Z")
that’s what matters aussie, you tried. 😉
and it wasn’t bad at all. =)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2003, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-way-to-pause-multiple-movie-clips/18518/12 "2003-04-17T15:56:50Z")
yeah… thanks… can just ask you one question and then i will leave this thread alone…
How long have you been using flash kax?? too get this good??
Anyway… glad i helped… even if it was a little bit…
//Scotty//
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-way-to-pause-multiple-movie-clips/18518/13 "2003-04-17T15:59:27Z")
see my profile. i’ve been using flash since the day i registered here. 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2003, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-way-to-pause-multiple-movie-clips/18518/14 "2003-04-17T16:07:57Z")
=)
Thanks again guys…I get it!! :love:
Aussie I think you did a great job explaining.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-way-to-pause-multiple-movie-clips/18518/15 "2003-04-17T16:09:20Z")
Thanks… glad we could help… and kax youve been using flash for a shorter time than me… your pretty good… anyway… i guess i should get back to increasing my flash skills… so… zya people…
//Scotty//
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2003, 4:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-way-to-pause-multiple-movie-clips/18518/16 "2003-04-17T16:21:12Z")
you’re welcome, jillymo. =)
and thanks, aussie. but there’s a lot of things still to learn. 😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-way-to-pause-multiple-movie-clips/18518/17 "2003-04-17T18:02:33Z")
Hey Crazygamer this DOES work :bounce:
Thank you!
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put an and instead of the comas and make sure to put a space on both sides of it…like on(release) {
+root.movieclip1.stop() and movieclip2.stop();
}
it SHOULD work
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 17, 2003, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/best-way-to-pause-multiple-movie-clips/18518/18 "2003-04-17T18:03:11Z")
without the (oops) plus sign of course 😉