# Playing Movie Clip Backwards

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-movie-clip-backwards/94044>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [November 7, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-movie-clip-backwards/94044 "2003-11-07T19:34:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![jhargrave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f08c70/32.png) [@jhargrave](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jhargrave)\
**Post date:** [November 7, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-movie-clip-backwards/94044/1 "2003-11-07T19:34:33Z")

</div>

I know that this has been the topic of much discussion, and I have searched (unsuccessfully) this forum, Macromedia’s, and the one a Google. So here goes:

I have a movie clip loaded into another. In this clip, I have different images, each motion-tweened into position every 11 frames. There is a stop on each 11th frame, therefore I can easily control the forward motion of the movie with a “forward” button in the parent movie.

However, I am having difficulty making a backward button that will stop on every 11th frame. I have used the following code successfully, but it just plays all the way back to frame 1, then stops.

myButton.onRelease = function() {  
\_root.myClip.onEnterFrame = function() {  
this.prevFrame();  
};

How do I tell it to stop on every 11th frame?

Thanks in advance.