# Keypress movements
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keypress-movements/23981
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 25, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keypress-movements/23981 "2003-06-25T00:07:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@scarce](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/scarce)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2003, 12:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keypress-movements/23981/1 "2003-06-25T00:07:06Z")
ok, I’m making a game: how do you: when I press up, I want it to play a few frames in the movie clip, when I let go, I want it to stop. same with down and left and right.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2003, 12:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keypress-movements/23981/2 "2003-06-25T00:14:46Z")
You mean like this?
[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/movement\_keys.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/movement_keys.htm)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2003, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keypress-movements/23981/3 "2003-06-25T00:16:23Z")
not exactly, I want it to just play the animation inside the movie clip then stop when released, I already know how to just make the movie clip move, thanks anyway
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [June 25, 2003, 12:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keypress-movements/23981/4 "2003-06-25T00:19:49Z")
ok, so instead of using AS to move the clip you can use nextFrame().
Example [AS]on (keyPress “\”) {
this.nextFrame();
}[/AS]
I gotta go now, hopefully this helps you.