# Button voodoo needed to control movie

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-voodoo-needed-to-control-movie/6475
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 8, 2002, 11:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-voodoo-needed-to-control-movie/6475 "2002-10-08T11:09:57Z")
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### Author: ![j0se](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/j0se/32/44_2.png) [@j0se](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/j0se)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2002, 11:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-voodoo-needed-to-control-movie/6475/1 "2002-10-08T11:09:57Z")

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hello again,

i have a copuple of mc’s on the main timeline. each mc consists of a simple tween-in (so it slides into view)

button 1:

on(release){  
\_root.play(“mc1”);  
}

on release, mc 1 plays fine. BUT if i then press the button again, the whole flash movie plays from the start as opossed to just mc1)

what’s the easiest way to fix this?

do i need to insert a stop on frame 1 of the mc, and a “start” label, then have my tween start from frame 2 and on reaching the end, snap back to frame 1 where i could show the thing complete?

or is there a better way? (btw: i don’t know if the above will work for sure)

cheers

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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: [October 8, 2002, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/button-voodoo-needed-to-control-movie/6475/2 "2002-10-08T14:06:51Z")

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Put a stop(); on frame 1, play() on frame 2, and a stop(); on the last frame…

if the button is only used for that, maybe put in:

this.enabled=false;

just a suggestion…