# Timeline vs movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/timeline-vs-movieclip/43373>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 21, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/timeline-vs-movieclip/43373 "2004-02-21T16:19:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![ichido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/43a26b/32.png) [@ichido](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ichido)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2004, 4:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/timeline-vs-movieclip/43373/1 "2004-02-21T16:19:59Z")

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I been experiment actionscript this few day, some question pop up.

inputing actionscript on a movie clip to make rotation

onClipEvent(enterFrame){  
this.\_rotation=this.\_rotation+=50;  
}

wat happen if you wan the script to be on the timeline and not the movieclip itself…?

this.\_rotation=this.\_rotation+=50;

doeen’t work on the timeline.