# Referencing the current movie clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-the-current-movie-clip/111361>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [May 26, 2004, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-the-current-movie-clip/111361 "2004-05-26T06:28:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![heyflashy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecb155/32.png) [@heyflashy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/heyflashy)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-the-current-movie-clip/111361/1 "2004-05-26T06:28:08Z")

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how do you reference a current movie clip?

for instance, a sequence of movie clips are playing one after another and if i were to press the “skip intro” button, i would like to stop the current movie clip.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 7:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-the-current-movie-clip/111361/2 "2004-05-26T07:18:38Z")

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stop();

?

kind of broad.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-the-current-movie-clip/111361/3 "2004-05-26T07:26:56Z")

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let’s say my flash movie consists of 10 movie clips (1-10). movie clip #1 plays and after it finishes, movie clip #2 plays, and so on. i have a “skip intro” button. if this button is pressed, i would like to advance all the way to movie clip #10. i can get this latter part to happen, but the problem is, the other movie clips are still playing.

for example, if i clicked the button while movie clip #2 was playing, both movie clip #10 and #2 would be playing.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 8:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-the-current-movie-clip/111361/4 "2004-05-26T08:06:00Z")

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Can you post your .fla? It would be clearer for us to see what’s the problem

Ubik

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2004, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/referencing-the-current-movie-clip/111361/5 "2004-05-26T08:08:49Z")

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Why don’t you just turn the whole sequence into 1 mc?  
Then make 10 framelabels, one for each section.  
Then on your button, just say

```auto

gotoAndPlay("yourLabel");

```