# Movie clip flickering on button press

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-flickering-on-button-press/14643>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 28, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-flickering-on-button-press/14643 "2003-02-28T21:04:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![ienjoypie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ienjoypie](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ienjoypie)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-flickering-on-button-press/14643/1 "2003-02-28T21:04:13Z")

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aight so here’s the deal… on my main time line i got a movie clip with the instance name of “textbox” (disregard quotes of course). I put a stop action on the first frame of the movie clip and the last frame so it doesn’t show up during the normal playing of the main timeline.

on a button i have the following action:

on (release) {  
\_root.textbox.play();  
}

aight… so the first time i press the button the the movie clip plays fine… but if i press the same button again, the movie clip will just flicker… like it resets itself, so then the next time i press the same button, the movie clip plays fine again… and so on and so forth.

Can anyone tell me why it does that little flicker???

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 28, 2003, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-flickering-on-button-press/14643/2 "2003-02-28T21:14:23Z")

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The problem is that you have 2 stop actions in your movieclip, take out the last one and it should be fine. =)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2003, 5:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-flickering-on-button-press/14643/3 "2003-03-01T17:24:34Z")

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ahhh simple enough…makes sense now that i think about it.