simple play/pause button?

[CMD83]

I want a pause button, if I click it it pauses the movieclip, and changes to a play button. If I click this play button I want the movieclip to run again, and change the pause button to a play button.

Any hints on how to do this?

Thanks in advance!

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[DEEZL]

You can try this. I've used it to control video, music and movieclips.
Give your movieclip an instance name so the buttons can refer to it. Your buttons will have to be in a 2-frame movieclip themselves in order to appear to toggle. On the pause button (frame 1):

on (release) {
nextFrame();
_root.instancename.stop();
}

On the play button (frame 2):

on (release) {
prevFrame();
_root.instancename.play();
}

Also put a stop(); action on frame 1 of this play/pause movieclip.

Hope this helps.