# Help please
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-please/447
**Category:** random
**Created:** [July 17, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-please/447 "2002-07-17T19:42:07Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@cheezewhip5](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cheezewhip5)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2002, 7:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-please/447/1 "2002-07-17T19:42:07Z")
how do i make it so that the animation stops and shows a button that you have to click to continue?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2002, 7:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-please/447/2 "2002-07-17T19:50:54Z")
## Well if you want the movie to stop on a frame put this:
stop();
* * *
## And on the button that continues the movie:
on(release) {
play();
}
* * *
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2002, 9:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-please/447/3 "2002-07-17T21:30:05Z")
when i test the movie, it says this:
Scene=Scene 1, Layer=Layer 1, Frame=1: Line 1: Statement must appear within on handler
stop ();
Generator is not enabled for this movie. c:\windows\TEMP\Movie11.swf
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2002, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-please/447/4 "2002-07-17T21:36:36Z")
That happened because you put the **stop();** action on a button or movie clip instead of on the Flash time line. Take it off the button or movie clip and then place it on the exact frame that you want it to stop at by using the timeline at the top of the macromedia flash program.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2002, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-please/447/5 "2002-07-18T02:37:35Z")
i’m VERY sorry, but i still don’t get it…where would i place the actions?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-please/447/6 "2002-07-18T02:51:12Z")
Those little white boxes in the right of this picture are the frames…right click on the frame you want to stop and Click the menu button called ‘Actions’ then place the stop action in that window:
stop();
And make a button and place it on the same frame and right click the botton and chose actions again and put this code in the window:
on(release) {
play();
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2002, 3:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-please/447/7 "2002-07-18T03:25:51Z")
oh… ok now i get it! haha, thank you very much, and i’m sorry for the trouble 🙂
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2002, 3:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-please/447/8 "2002-07-18T03:38:02Z")
Don’t worry, its what I am here for!