Actionscript to play a movie?

Question

I am fairly new to Flash. Can someone provide the AS3 to play
a movie on
the stage onClick of a button?
Thanks!!!!!!

Answer 1

I also placed a stop action on the first frame of the stage
in the scene.
CJ wrote:
> It is not working for me, here is what I did:
>
> 1. Made a movie clip and placed a stop action on the
first frame of the
> movie clip. Am I not supposed to do this?
>
> 2. Dragged the movie clip to the stage
>
> 3. dragged a button to the stage
>
> 4. named the button my_btn
>
> 5. copied your action script to a the first frame on a
new layer of the
> stage
>
>
>
> How does the action script know to play the specific
movie clip on the
> stage that I want it to?
>
>
> Thanks for your help!!!!!!
>
>
>
> dzedward wrote:
>> my_btn.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
btnClicked);
>> function btnClicked(e:MouseEvent):void{
>> play();
>> }