# Key press help
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-press-help/23914
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [June 24, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-press-help/23914 "2003-06-24T07:17:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@scarce](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/scarce)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 7:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-press-help/23914/1 "2003-06-24T07:17:17Z")
Ok, how do you: when you (lets say) press up on the key board, have a movie clip play, but when you release up, make it stop on a frame?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-press-help/23914/2 "2003-06-24T07:19:56Z")
this does it 🙂
give you’re movie an instance name of ‘myMovieClip’ and have this script on the main timeline. NOT the movieclip 🙂
```auto
Key.addListener(myMovieClip)
myMovieClip.onKeyDown = function() {
this.play()
}
myMovieClip.onKeyUp = function() {
this.gotoAndStop(framenum)
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 7:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-press-help/23914/3 "2003-06-24T07:27:10Z")
but what if I’m using multiple buttons? like up down left right, how do I signify the certain buttons?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2003, 7:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/key-press-help/23914/4 "2003-06-24T07:42:22Z")
when I did what you said, when i held the key down, it kept going to frame one and stopping ☹