shouldn't be too difficult but can't get it to work

[intricate]

I've got a button which controls a movieclip.. Onpress it plays the clip.. now I want it to play a certain number of frames when the button is released (e.g. (_totalframes)-(_currentframe) and then to stop at a certain point. This point differs (i.e. depending on where you release, the 'stopframe' will be different). I can't, however, add a stop action to the 'stopframes' because I don't want the movie to stop when you have the mouse down.. How do I get it to play when the mouse is down yet stop at that point when it is released?

[davidmasterson]

you could put a variable somewhere maybe in the root

like _root.IsPressed = false

and when the button is

pressed set this to true

and on release set this to false

then in the frames put the stop command in a if statement

if (_root.isPressed == False ){
Stop();
}

this will only stop if the user is not pressing the button

[intricate]

yes, ofcourse... so simple... Thanks!