Play a movie clip backwards

I’m trying to play a movie clip backwards on rollout, but can’t get it to work.

I have a main movie clip, which contains a button and a movie clip.
Since the area of main movie clip is larger than the button hit area, I’m trying to create the reverse effect from the button.

[AS]on (rollOver) {
forside_movie.gotoAndPlay (1); // play movie forward
}

on (rollOut) {
forside_movie.prevFrame (_currentframe - 1); // play movie backwards
}[/AS]
Obviously the rollout effect doesn’t work. I have also tried with…

[AS]forside_movie.gotoAndStop (_currentframe - 1);[/AS]
and…

[AS]for (i = 10; i > 0; i–) {
forside_movie.gotoAndStop (i);
}[/AS]
and…

[AS]forside_movie.prevFrame();[/AS]
and on the forside_movie to place…

[AS]onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse , _root._ymouse , false)) {
nextFrame();
}

else {
prevFrame();
}
}[/AS]
but same result everytime - no action :puzzle: Some help would be much appreciated :slight_smile: