public play() : Void

Moves the playhead in the Timeline of the movie clip.

You can extend the methods and event handlers of the MovieClip class by creating a subclass.

Example

Use the following ActionScript to play the main Timeline of a SWF file. This ActionScript is for a movie clip button called my_mc on the main Timeline:

stop();
my_mc.onRelease = function() {
    this._parent.play();
};

Use the following ActionScript to play the Timeline of a movie clip in a SWF file. This ActionScript is for a button called my_btn on the main Timeline that plays a movie clip called animation_mc:

animation_mc.stop();
my_btn.onRelease = function(){
    animation_mc.play();
};

See also

play function, gotoAndPlay (MovieClip.gotoAndPlay method), gotoAndPlay function