# How to hold on frame waiting for event?

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 18, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-hold-on-frame-waiting-for-event/303339 "2010-01-18T23:52:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![JKennedy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@JKennedy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/JKennedy)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2010, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-hold-on-frame-waiting-for-event/303339/1 "2010-01-18T23:52:14Z")

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I am sure I will receive the beginner question of the year with this one:  
Just starting w/ Flash 8. Using AS2 to simply make a graphic (and its clickable area) proceed to next frame when clicked. When input :  
button.onRelease = function() {  
gotoAndStop(2)  
the movie proceeds to Frame 2 without a pause for the click event.  
I have tried a stop(); prior to the above function, but no action after click.  
Basically trying to understand why frame 1 with the event handler AS does not pause to accept the mouse click?  
I apologize for such a basic question, but my eyeballs are bleeding from trying to figure this out.  
Thanks in advance for any help.