Help with a StopWatch!

I am making a racing game and i made a MC timer, which times in seconds. I also created a frame by frame animation for it (20fps) and created 22 seconds. Now i placed the IstanceName: clock, and the MCname: clock.
Placed it onto the stage and gave the AS:

On(keyDown, <SPACE>) //something like that..
tellTarget("clock"){
Stop;
}
}

Did I do anything wrong? I pressed space in the game and it gaves me an output window saying that it cannot locate the (MC/Instance) clock and so didn't the clock stop.

Thanks for any posts i can find in this place.
//P.s. There a'int any tutorials...
//P.P.s So I can't get that AS
//P.P.P.s Should i use _Root.clock.Stop? It don't work..

If you're using Actionscript 2, try something like this on the main timeline:

code:

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keyListener = new Object();



Key.addListener(keyListener);



keyListener.onKeyDown = function(){

	if(Key.isDown(Key.SPACE)){

		this.clock.stop();

	}

	

}

---

or, it seems that up to the point where you're telling it to stop, it works, so make sure that you're using either _root.clock.stop(); or this.clock.stop....and make sure that the instance name of your movie clip on the stage is clock, and that no other object has the instance name of clock.

That's all I have to suggest, try it and hopefully it works.

It works in some sort of way.. thanks