# Play backwards with script, but no stop();
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-backwards-with-script-but-no-stop/34089
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [October 28, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-backwards-with-script-but-no-stop/34089 "2003-10-28T02:32:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@mucho](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mucho)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 2:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-backwards-with-script-but-no-stop/34089/1 "2003-10-28T02:32:03Z")
Helloooo everyone,
so I’m using this script to play a menu backwards and it works, but when clicking the button to do so…it plays the whole darn thing back and does not stop at my stop actions…do I have to write the action like this now? ;()pots ?!! 😉
ideas, thoughts???
thx,
m.
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onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (\_root.direction == “forwards”) {
this.gotoAndStop(this.\_currentframe+1);
}
if (\_root.direction == “backwards”) {
this.gotoAndStop(this.\_currentframe-1);
}
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-backwards-with-script-but-no-stop/34089/2 "2003-10-28T02:33:37Z")
why dont you try using frame labels instead of numbers and have it stop at the frame labels
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-backwards-with-script-but-no-stop/34089/3 "2003-10-28T02:34:25Z")
I’m actually using labels…but how’s is that gonna work…
can I tell to play backwards until that label???
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 2:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-backwards-with-script-but-no-stop/34089/4 "2003-10-28T02:36:48Z")
hmmm you got me there im not too keen on AS but it was jsut a thought :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-backwards-with-script-but-no-stop/34089/5 "2003-10-28T02:40:33Z")
Althought I am not quite sure what you are trying to accomplish, you could use \_currentframe to determine where you’d like it to stop
if(this.\_currentframe==){
stop();
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-backwards-with-script-but-no-stop/34089/6 "2003-10-28T02:51:58Z")
hmm…let’s try… the movie I’m trying to play backwards is a navigation, so when pressed back, the menue should go back to its original position…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 2:57am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-backwards-with-script-but-no-stop/34089/7 "2003-10-28T02:57:59Z")
this is how it looks now…but it WON’T stop!!!
onClipEvent (enterFrame) {
if (\_root.direction == “forwards”) {
this.gotoAndStop(this.\_currentframe+1);
}
if (\_root.direction == “backwards”) {
this.gotoAndStop(this.\_currentframe-1)
this.\_currentframe=16; {
stop();
}
```
}
```
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 3:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-backwards-with-script-but-no-stop/34089/8 "2003-10-28T03:24:42Z")
ok…screw it! anyone knows how to play a mc BACKWARDS to a specific label, frame number or action…
thx,
m.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 28, 2003, 4:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/play-backwards-with-script-but-no-stop/34089/9 "2003-10-28T04:22:54Z")
I’ve always had much better luck if I just make the MC twice as long and essentially duplicate the “foward” phase, but then reverse it in a matter of speaking, as a “reverse” phase. Twice as many frames in the MC, but much more successful and your stop()s will work. There’s my 2 cents.