# Play and Pause feature

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-and-pause-feature/73830
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 21, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-and-pause-feature/73830 "2004-12-21T00:09:41Z")
**Posts on this page:** 1
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![dyangochavez](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/dyangochavez/32/643_2.png) [@dyangochavez](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/dyangochavez)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2004, 12:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-and-pause-feature/73830/1 "2004-12-21T00:09:41Z")

</div>

Hi everybody,

I have a movie containing several movieclips interacting. I was wondering if there is a way to stop all of them when the user press a pause button, and continue playing (the movie and movieclips at that moment) when the user press a play button.

Thank you very much