# setInterval woooooes

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setinterval-woooooes/47781>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 7, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setinterval-woooooes/47781 "2004-04-07T04:36:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![rickface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@rickface](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rickface)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setinterval-woooooes/47781/1 "2004-04-07T04:36:28Z")

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Hi y’all. This problem of mine is making the rounds! 🙂 This is actually the second forum…still cant figure it out 😕

Basically what I am trying to do is use setInterval to start playing mc’s that are already place on the stage. The clips are named waiting1, waiting2, waiting3, etc. All mc’s are placed on the \_root as well as the following code.

var mN = 0

function startMovie() {  
mN = mN+1  
nextClip = “waiting”+mN;  
nextClip.gotoAndPlay(2);  
}

setInterval(startMovie, 3000)

stop();

This all works but it doesnt 🙂 If I trace nextClip, I get waiting1, waiting2, etc…so the interval and function are working, but the movies arent playing :? Im baffled :? Can anyone see anything weird about this? Thanks in adv!

best,  
JTK