# Couple of easy questions that i am finding very hard

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/couple-of-easy-questions-that-i-am-finding-very-hard/187226
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**Created:** [April 27, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/couple-of-easy-questions-that-i-am-finding-very-hard/187226 "2006-04-27T16:25:41Z")
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### Author: ![tsunchoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc348/32.png) [@tsunchoo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/tsunchoo)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2006, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/couple-of-easy-questions-that-i-am-finding-very-hard/187226/1 "2006-04-27T16:25:41Z")

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i just need this one movie clip to play from frame 2 the first time the movie is run…i have tried using an OnEnterFrame action but it doesn’t work and i don’t know why…how does EnterFrame work? will i have to use a variable? it’s so simple-there must be a way of doing this - am i insane?

i checked the Macromedia site and it says…to use this syntax…

myMovieClip.onEnterFrame = function () {  
trace (“onEnterFrame called”);  
};

but when i use the left-hand column in the action script panel and add an OnEnterFrame thing i get this syntax…

onClipEvent (enterFrame) {  
}

could someone explain to me what these 2 things are - how i do this thing and whether or not my sense of logic needs addressing…

i keep thinking i’m getting better at Flash then i just hit a brick wall again and again waiting for my disparate bits of knowledge to join up and allow me to solve things intuitively…

any help very helpful

:puzzle: