How to pause a movie

[coolguy13]

HI

I hv loaded a movie (say mc1) in a frame using loadMovie. now if i click a button another movie (say mc2) will be loaded and i want the running movie (mc1) to stop at that point. and when i exit from the second movie (mc2). then mc1 should start from the point it was stopped last time.

seeking for an urgent help....

[andr.in]

_root.myloadedmc.mctostop.stop();
change myloadedmc to wherever your mc1 is loaded
for example _root.movie.mc1 or sth...
and change mctostop to the movieclip you want to stop in mc1.
for example if the button was in mc1 and it would be like this:
_root.moviemovie.camel.stop();
then the mctostop would be moviemovie.camel
and _root.movie.mc1 + moviemovie.camel =
_root.movie.mc1.moviemovie.camel (+".stop();")
I hope you got it.
Just merge the 2 movieclip hierarchies and voila :)

[coolguy13]

thanx syko but i m confused.
I will explain it again.
on the root timeline i hv an empty movie called "Mov_empty". in side this i m loading a movie on runtime and store the movie name in a variable called "mov_name". now on click of a button i want to stop the movie. what will be the path for that.
will it be
_root.Mov_empty.mov_name
or
_root.Mov_empty[_root.mov_name]
or
smthng else
i tried all these but none of them is working.

[andr.in]

hum... what do you mean by "...store the movie name in a variable called "mov_name"..."
but it should be something like this:
_root.Mov_empty.<moviecliptostop>.stop();

[coolguy13]

i hv a navigation panel whenever i press next button the movie to be loaded is stored in a variable called "Mov_name" and then i use this variable to load a movie.

[andr.in]

you mean the Mov_name is like "home.swf" and "links.swf or sth?
This thing has got nothing to do with swf file names ya know ...

[coolguy13]

yup. its like that... but the way u told me its not stopping the movie.