# This is going to be a stoopid question but
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-going-to-be-a-stoopid-question-but/96499
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 10, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-going-to-be-a-stoopid-question-but/96499 "2003-12-10T05:14:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@EZEkiel](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/EZEkiel)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-going-to-be-a-stoopid-question-but/96499/1 "2003-12-10T05:14:47Z")
is there a way to play a symbol without having a gotoandplay string on it??
cause i am sick and tired of having that string every where, it seems “childish”
if you can help me thank you !!!
E1kO
\*another satisfied kirupian
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2003, 5:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-going-to-be-a-stoopid-question-but/96499/2 "2003-12-10T05:19:02Z")
I don’t know alot about actionscript or flash for the matter but whos gonna see it?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2003, 5:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-going-to-be-a-stoopid-question-but/96499/3 "2003-12-10T05:48:38Z")
just put in in the timeline and it’ll play itself. I dunno what kind of answer you’re looking for!
symbol.play();
this should work.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2003, 9:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-going-to-be-a-stoopid-question-but/96499/4 "2003-12-10T09:51:26Z")
opps sorry i didn’t quite explain myself !!
i want to press a button and have it play a movie clip, but i want something better then got to and play to run it
hopefull this helps everyone !!! with my dilemma
E1kO
\*thanks :luigi:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2003, 11:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-going-to-be-a-stoopid-question-but/96499/5 "2003-12-10T11:31:16Z")
> i want to press a button and have it play a movie clip, but i want something better then got to and play to run it
why ??
No point complicating a good and simple process which works, unless you are looking for something which is more dynamic for functionality reasons i do not see why GotoAndPlay is not good enough ?
or am i missing something…
If its just sophistication u want, try some advanced maths functions and the like to add proper functions to your site, after all as long as the movie plays correctly the user will never know wether you used GotoAndPlay or a 100 line function, just as long as it works they wont care.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2003, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-going-to-be-a-stoopid-question-but/96499/6 "2003-12-10T14:15:31Z")
how about this.
```auto
MovieClip.prototype.complexPositionalMod = function(a){
this.gotoAndPlay(a);
}
myObject_MC.complexPositionalMod(10);
```
😉
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/this-is-going-to-be-a-stoopid-question-but/96499/7 "2003-12-10T15:00:28Z")
😃 :thumb: