# Playing forward and backward a movie clip **URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-forward-and-backward-a-movie-clip/159389 **Category:** flash **Created:** [August 17, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-forward-and-backward-a-movie-clip/159389 "2005-08-17T04:01:13Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![Alleycat](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/alleycat/32/1655_2.png) [@Alleycat](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alleycat) #### Post date: [August 17, 2005, 4:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-forward-and-backward-a-movie-clip/159389/1 "2005-08-17T04:01:13Z")
Hello friends, I was hoping someone could enlighten me on this. I have a movie clip and some buttons on the stage. Depending on the button I press, the movie clip will either have the frames moving forward or backward. Let me illustrate : Movie Clip : total 30 frames 6 buttons (A, B, C, D, E,F) Actionscript : Stop() at frames 5,10,15,20,25,30 If frame is at 1 : will move to frame 5. At frame 5 : Button A does nothing Button B moves movieclip to frame 10 Button C moves movieclip to frame 15 Button D moves movieclip to frame 20 Button E moves movieclip to frame 25 Button F moves movieclip to frame 30 At frame 10 : Button A moves movieclip backwards to frame 5 Button B does nothing Button C moves movieclip to frame 15 Button D moves movieclip to frame 20 Button E moves movieclip to frame 25 Button F moves movieclip to frame 30 At frame 15 : Button A moves movieclip backwards to frame 5 Button B moves movieclip backwards to frame 10 Button C does nothing Button D moves movieclip to frame 20 Button E moves movieclip to frame 25 Button F moves movieclip to frame 30 etc etc… you get the idea Can anyone please detail out how this is possibly done ? Thank you very much for your kind assistance