# Slideshow stop

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/slideshow-stop/185780>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [April 16, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/slideshow-stop/185780 "2006-04-16T13:08:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![awholeuniverse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@awholeuniverse](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/awholeuniverse)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 1:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/slideshow-stop/185780/1 "2006-04-16T13:08:50Z")

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Hello …I am unexperienced in Flash so please bear with me

I followed Kirupa’s tutorial [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml\_slideshow3.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx2004/xml_slideshow3.htm) on how to create a slideshow XML .

I am trying to inseert a button into the movie so that on pressing that button the slideshow stops.

I tried to do this by adding:

slide\_show.onRelease = function() {  
slideshow().stop;  
}  
does that even make sense? How can one stop a function from executing itself?

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**Author:** ![scotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scotty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/scotty)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 5:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/slideshow-stop/185780/2 "2006-04-17T05:33:43Z")

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```auto
slide_show.onRelease = function() {
   clearInterval(myInterval);
}

```

?

scotty(-:

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**Author:** ![awholeuniverse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@awholeuniverse](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/awholeuniverse)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 10:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/slideshow-stop/185780/3 "2006-04-19T10:16:58Z")

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Thank you !You are a life saver :))

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**Author:** ![scotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@scotty](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/scotty)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/slideshow-stop/185780/4 "2006-04-19T14:03:50Z")

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you’re welcome=)