# Movie clip movement help!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-movement-help/172021>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 10, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-movement-help/172021 "2005-12-10T00:16:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Kesar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/41988e/32.png) [@Jeff\_Kesar](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jeff_Kesar)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2005, 12:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-movement-help/172021/1 "2005-12-10T00:16:06Z")

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SO, i have a movieclip that slides back and forth depending on which way the mouse moves but I need a dead space in the middle of the 800px wide stage so the clip doesn’t keep scrolling when I am in the middle so I can click on navigation items… here is the script I am using to make it work… anyone know how to give it a dead space of like 300 px in the middle of 800 px stage?

onClipEvent (load)  
{  
xcenter=400;  
speed=.75/10;

}  
onClipEvent (enterFrame)

{  
if (\_global.menus)  
var distance=\_root.\_xmouse-xcenter;  
\_x+=(distance\*speed);  
if (\_x \> 0) \_x=0;  
if (\_x \< -870) \_x=-870;  
}

any help would be much appreciated… Thanks in advance…