# Kirupa's News Ticker (June05)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupas-news-ticker-june05/171945>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 9, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupas-news-ticker-june05/171945 "2005-12-09T13:42:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jakeo123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e79b87/32.png) [@Jakeo123](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jakeo123)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/kirupas-news-ticker-june05/171945/1 "2005-12-09T13:42:13Z")

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Hi all,

I have recently created a news ticker based on kirupa’s guide.

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/newsticker.htm)

but I am looking for a way to pause the ticker when the user roll’s over the text.

I’ve tried using a hittest (\_root.\_ymouse, \_root.\_xmouse) on the newsMC, to set a variable to true, then using an if statement to prevent the timer function being called unless that variable is false, but I can’t seem to get it to work!

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Jake.