# Controlling movie clips

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-movie-clips/296162>\
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**Created:** [September 10, 2009, 9:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-movie-clips/296162 "2009-09-10T09:23:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![aphid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f07891/32.png) [@aphid](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/aphid)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 9:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-movie-clips/296162/1 "2009-09-10T09:23:02Z")

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Hi there,

I am struggling (new to programming). I have created a website on the time line. There is actionscipt contolling which frame to play via a button. Within this button is a movieclip with a fade in using alpha on its own timeline with a stop(); at the end.

The problem is I only want it to play when you first see it from moving to that page from the main timeline. Currently if i move over the button it plays the movie again which i dont want to happen. I do however want to retain the over states etc for the button.

Hope that makes sense

Thanks for any help!