# How to play a MC in Reverse

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [June 12, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-play-a-mc-in-reverse/290324 "2009-06-12T18:13:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![chaman85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b9e5f3/32.png) [@chaman85](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/chaman85)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-play-a-mc-in-reverse/290324/1 "2009-06-12T18:13:32Z")

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I was creating an interface and I´m programming it, i’m trying to make a MovieClip play backwards.

The .fla works this way:

In the principal Timeline I have a MC called contents\_mc, it contains the elements of the animation and the next & return buttons.

So, Frame 1 is the 1st screen, when you Release next\_mc button, it has to play frame 2 to 25 (Frame 25 is 2nd screen) and when you Release next\_mc button it has to play frame 26 to 51 (Frame 51 is the 3rd screen), I used the basic commands, you know, gotoAndPlay, stop, etc. and it works very fine.

The thing here is that I need to program the “return\_mc” button so I can move from frame 25 to 1 (I mean from screen 2 to 1) playing in reverse frames and then if I´m on screen 3, move to screen 2.

The idea is to make this system work no mattering if i have 15 screens or 2. Any Ideas?

Also I’ve atacched my fla file, I’m Working on Flash CS4 and ActionScript 2.0

I’ve deleted all the stuff in the fla, so I only left a 3 color line to notice the changes from a screen to another

I’ll Love some help.

Thanx so much to everyone