# Removing a function attached to a movie clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/removing-a-function-attached-to-a-movie-clip/282043>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 17, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/removing-a-function-attached-to-a-movie-clip/282043 "2009-02-17T02:52:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![yani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e9c0ed/32.png) [@yani](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/yani)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2009, 2:52am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/removing-a-function-attached-to-a-movie-clip/282043/1 "2009-02-17T02:52:25Z")

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Hi, i’m trying to remove a function from a movieclip, is there a way of doing this, so I keep the movieclip on stage but removes the onPress etc? I’d also want to be able to reapply that function the movieclip later.

thanks for any help