# How to get the current frame?

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 27, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-get-the-current-frame/289169 "2009-05-27T04:37:00Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 27, 2009, 4:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-get-the-current-frame/289169/1 "2009-05-27T04:37:00Z")

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How to get the current frame?

At first its in the starting frame.  
What I want to do is when I press Enter gotoAndStop(3);  
and again pressing enter key and if its in frame 5 gotoAndStop(5); etc.

So how to know which frame I’m in at the present moment?

One way I did is giving all the keyframes (3, 5, etc) a particular label  
and check using ‘currentLabel == 3 ,…etc’. But is there any way to do it without giving it a label by merely using the keyframe numbers?

why does trace(this.frame); returns ‘undefined’?

Please help.  
Thank You.