Controlling MovieClips

Fairly inexperienced at anything other than basic scripting in Flash. What I'm trying to do is create a movie clip in AS2 that can be told to play by pressing the spacebar, but only when the mouse is over it. Any help would be appreciated!

my_mc is the instance name of the movie clip you want to play

Code:

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keyListener = new Object();
keyListener.onKeyDown = function() {
        if (Key.getCode() == Key.SPACE) {
                if (my_mc.hitTest(_xmouse, _ymouse)) {
                        my_mc.play();
                }
        }
};
Key.addListener(keyListener);

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Thanks dawsonk!

I tried attaching what you typed to the movieclip (chest is the name of my mc):

Code:

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keyListener = new Object();
keyListener.onKeyDown = function() {
        if (Key.getCode() == Key.SPACE) {
                if (chest_mc.hitTest(_xmouse, _ymouse)) {
                        chest_mc.play();
                }
        }
};
Key.addListener(keyListener);

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and I got this error, Statement must appear within on/onClipEvent handler, for each line with a keyListener on it.

When I attach the code to the frame I get no errors but nothing happens.

Okay, I got it! I didn't add the _mc to my movie clip name. Thanks dawsonk! I knew it would be a keylistener, but I just couldn't figure out exactly how to code it. This helped a lot!