# Making one movieclip control another

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-one-movieclip-control-another/101614
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [February 11, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-one-movieclip-control-another/101614 "2004-02-11T23:30:13Z")
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### Author: ![mlkedave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@mlkedave](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mlkedave)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2004, 11:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/making-one-movieclip-control-another/101614/1 "2004-02-11T23:30:13Z")

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I am probably just making a stupid mistake but can someone show me how to do the following…

I have a moive clip on \_root and another movieclip within several other movieclips. I want the moiveclilp that is in several other movieclips to be able to stop the movieclip on \_root on a release trigger.

I basically just want to know the proper AS for using one movieclip as a button that stops or plays another movieclip. Thanks

Mike