# Starting and stoping movie clip inside of movie clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/starting-and-stoping-movie-clip-inside-of-movie-clip/316025>\
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**Created:** [November 10, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/starting-and-stoping-movie-clip-inside-of-movie-clip/316025 "2010-11-10T15:59:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![pkcidstudio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/278dde/32.png) [@pkcidstudio](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pkcidstudio)\
**Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/starting-and-stoping-movie-clip-inside-of-movie-clip/316025/1 "2010-11-10T15:59:54Z")

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I haven’t worked with flash since 2004, and I am realizing that I have missed a lot. I am trying to control different movie clips that reside inside of a parent movie clip.

Code of movie clip inside of playbar

```auto
stop();
//functions
function over_playBar_1(evt:MouseEvent):void {
    MovieClip(root).playBar_mc.gotoAndPlay(2);
}

// events
ind.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, over_playBar_1);

```

Code to move playbar around in parent.

```auto
stop();
//functions
function over_playBar(evt:MouseEvent):void {
    gotoAndPlay(2);
}
function out_playBar(evt:MouseEvent):void {
    gotoAndPlay(11);
}

// events
playBar_activeArea.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OVER, over_playBar);
playBar_activeArea.addEventListener(MouseEvent.ROLL_OUT, out_playBar);

```

I can email the FLA if that would help.