# Text button for a movie playback

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**Created:** [March 25, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-button-for-a-movie-playback/306969 "2010-03-25T14:14:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![robmatthews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dc4da7/32.png) [@robmatthews](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/robmatthews)\
**Post date:** [March 25, 2010, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-button-for-a-movie-playback/306969/1 "2010-03-25T14:14:11Z")

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I have a flv file with a skin in a flash banner I have created. I am trying to also use a text button I created (“play movie”) to start playing the movie. Does anyone know the action script 3.0 necessary to do this? Thanks