# Playing movies by mouse rollover

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-movies-by-mouse-rollover/43501>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 23, 2004, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-movies-by-mouse-rollover/43501 "2004-02-23T12:00:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Sin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sin)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2004, 12:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/playing-movies-by-mouse-rollover/43501/1 "2004-02-23T12:00:52Z")

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I know that this sounds like a ridiculously easy question to answe, but I’ll ask anyway because after five hours I’ve just given up trying to find it on my own.

I’m having trouble getting a movie (animation) to run when you move over the indicator. Basically I have a metal Iris (like the thingy of Stargate) which is supposed to open when you move the cursor over it. I can get the animation to play (though I’m not sure if I’m doing it right as I’m doing by just sticking 10 consecutive keyframes), but I can’t figure out how to get it to play **only** when the cusor moves over it, and then play a closing iris animation when the cusor moves off it.

Also it would be good if I could play the animation in the reverese order (for rolloff) picking up from where the rollover animation left off. That is if the rollover animation only got upto frame 5 (instead of 10, because they moved the cursor off to quickly) then the rolloff animation would go from frame 5 to 0 rather than from frame 10 to 0.

Cheers,  
Carl