Creating onrollover / onrollout button that plays its full ONanimation when touched

Hey all,
On most of my option MC's I have something like:
this.onRollOver = function(){
this.gotoAndPlay("onanim")
this.onRollOut = function(){
this.gotoAndPlay("offanim")
Obviousy if you quickly roll on and then off the MC the
animation is staggergy and not a fluid animation.
I would like to set it so that everytime you touch/roll on
the option MC it will always play its full on animation right, then
it will go to the off animation.
I believe you can incorporate onenterframe object to achive
this. Could someone please show me a good solution.
Any help would be great.

the best solution is to stop the rollover animation as soon
as the button is rolled out and start the rollout behavior (from
the correct place on your timeline) as soon as the rollout is
triggered.
depending on your rollover and rollout animations that may
require a little math or more commonly when the rollout animation
is just the rollover animation playing in reverse would involve
playing the rollover behavior backwords.
it's this latter situation that is commonly used to trigger
an onEnterFrame handler that calls a prevFrame() method and
terminates when frame 1 is reached.

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