# Reversing the animation in a movie clip

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reversing-the-animation-in-a-movie-clip/228704
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [June 10, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reversing-the-animation-in-a-movie-clip/228704 "2007-06-10T18:20:52Z")
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### Author: ![pandu\_kirupa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cab0a1/32.png) [@pandu\_kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pandu_kirupa)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2007, 6:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/reversing-the-animation-in-a-movie-clip/228704/1 "2007-06-10T18:20:52Z")

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i am having a problem in reversing the animation in a movie clip i am posting the function i used on main timeline pls solve this

function reverse(init) {  
init.stop();  
var noofframes = init.\_totalframes;  
var i = noofframes;  
while(i \< 1){   
init.gotoAndPlay(i);  
i–;  
if(i==1)  
i = noofframes;  
}  
trace(i);

}

the function isn’t working pls check it