# Urgent help needed with Play/pause button in flash
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-help-needed-with-play-pause-button-in-flash/29481
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [August 27, 2003, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-help-needed-with-play-pause-button-in-flash/29481 "2003-08-27T10:32:23Z")
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### Author:  [@chimpo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/chimpo)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-help-needed-with-play-pause-button-in-flash/29481/1 "2003-08-27T10:32:23Z")
I have seen umpteen different guides on how to make a play/pause button in flash. and i cannot get it to work. I think i may pull my hair out soon.
basically- i have made an mc which sits on the main timeline. i t has 2 frames, ecah of which has a stop() action in the frame. the first has a pause button with the following script attached to to the button:
on(release){
\_root.stop();
gotoAndStop(2);
}
i have also tried putting in nextFrame instead of gotoAndStop() -but this is besides the point as it’s not even stopping!
in the second frame there is a play button with the following scruipt attached to it:
on(release){
\_root.play();
gotoAndStop(1);
}
I think the problem may be deeper rooted because i have looked on sevral guides and they all tell me to do a similar thing.
In fact i made a button which sat on the timeline with this script
on (release) {
\_root.stop();
}
and STILL nothing happened!!! someone helo me please!!
chimpo
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 10:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-help-needed-with-play-pause-button-in-flash/29481/2 "2003-08-27T10:45:29Z")
can you post the FLA so we can have a look at it? There’s nothing wrong with your script so maybe the problem is in the animation on the main timeline! :-\
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 10:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-help-needed-with-play-pause-button-in-flash/29481/3 "2003-08-27T10:48:49Z")
ok how do i do that? its quite big (about 1300 frames)-
-edit ok ive chopped off a bit of it- its now about 30 frames or so- about 90k now is this too big?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 27, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-help-needed-with-play-pause-button-in-flash/29481/4 "2003-08-27T18:24:31Z")
no its fine. go ahead and upload it