# Easy question - Toggle

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easy-question-toggle/153954>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 5, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easy-question-toggle/153954 "2005-07-05T22:27:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vertical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e8c25b/32.png) [@Vertical](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Vertical)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2005, 10:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easy-question-toggle/153954/1 "2005-07-05T22:27:58Z")

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Hi, im completely new to Flash ActionScripting, and pretty much flash in general. Im using SWiSHmax unti I can get used to using Flash MX, anyhow, the scripting is pretty much if not exactly the same (from what I can tell)…

I’m trying to make it so that when you click on the flash the movie pauses (if there is no pause, stop is fine) I would rather it not do either of those and just mute all of the sound I have in the movie (4 different .wav files) I tried using stopallsound() or whatever, but it would only stop the sound currently playing, the next time one got called it would still play. So I would prefer muting the sounds, or second pausing the movie, or worst, stopping the movie. I want it so that after you have clicked to stop the movie(or mute the sounds), you can click again and reactivate the movie (or sound). Like a toggle button except with the entire movie.

I could easily do something like this in another language, but ActionScript is alot … different 😛

Thus far I’ve gotton:  
on (release) {  
if (type = “” || type = “playing”)  
var type = “stopped”;  
gotoAndStop(1);  
}

on (release) {  
if (type = “stopped”)  
var type = “playing”;  
gotoAndPlay(1);  
}

I would MUCH RATHER it just mute the sound, but I havn’t got a clue how to do this. Starting and stopping the movie was really my last resort. ☹

Also any beginner tutorials on actionscripting, etc would be very helpful if you guys have any 🙂 Thanks!