Starting & Stopping Movieclips in Flash

Flash Tutorial to control Movieclip symbols using Actionscript

While working with Movieclips in Flash you will find it necessary to start and stop the animation at runtime. Movieclips can be easily controlled using Actionscript in Flash. The instance name of the Movieclip symbol is used to control it using Actionscript commands. In this Tutorial you'll learn how to control Movieclips using simple Actionscript code. It is very simple and neatly explained below.

Controlling Movieclips using Actionscript

Create a Movieclip (Refer Advanced Masking for this example) with some animation and name the instance say, 'mask_mc'.
Create a Button for Start and Stop action of the movieclip and name them as 'start_btn' and 'stop_btn' respectively.
Write the following Actionscript code for the 2 Buttons as given below:

Start Button
on(press)
{
mask_mc.play();
}

Stop Button
on(press)
{
mask_mc.stop();
}

Save your work and test the Movie (Ctrl + Enter). Thats it you have learnt how to control movieclips in Flash using Actionscript.

Fig: Start & Stop Movieclip using Actionscript

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