# Movie Clip Symbol Question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-symbol-question/118377>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 4, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-symbol-question/118377 "2004-08-04T21:44:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![plasmator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@plasmator](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/plasmator)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 9:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-symbol-question/118377/1 "2004-08-04T21:44:15Z")

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I’ve just recently started playing with flash and I have what I imagine will be a simple question. I’m doing some basic animation of something my girlfriend drew.

Anyway, I created a symbol of type “Movie Clip” and I want it to play when clicked, then I want it to stop. Right now, the thing starts with the rest of the movie and plays on a continuous loop.

The .fla file is up at [http://www.plasmator.net/mainMenu2.fla](http://www.plasmator.net/mainMenu2.fla)

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![lunatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/73ab20/32.png) [@lunatic](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lunatic)\
**Post date:** [August 4, 2004, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-symbol-question/118377/2 "2004-08-04T22:03:50Z")

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You have posted in the MX forum but it seems that the file is in MX2004? Could you resave?

But I’m going to bet its as simple as putting a stop() in the first frame. Make sure the movieclip has an instance name (e.g. “myMovie” no quotes). Then in your actionscript you can say:

```auto

myMovie.onPress = function(){
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

```

And finally, make sure there is a stop() on the last frame as well.

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