Multiple movie control?

[beh28]

I hope that this question isn't too dumb. I'm still using Flash MX and that could be part of my problem, though I doubt it. I'm trying to make a little movie for a website and I've gone through the bundled lessons and tutorials several times (although I've not bothered with the ActionScript tutorials, and I'm willing to admit that that's probably my problem right there). Anyway, the idea is to have a little slideshow movie running with a separate text movie running concurrently. I'd like one of the movies to loop, while the other one I'd like to run once and then stop. I've done some quick searches within the help files to no avail.

Would someone be so kind as to suggest what I need to do to get movie symbols to stop after going through them once? Thanks.

[Jon2211]

I would love others to weigh in on this but I would try the following.
At the end of your text movie clip put

stop();

in the last frame, probably add a blank keyframe at the end so the movie "invisible".

[beh28]

Thanks Jon2211. As soon as I read your post I realized what I had done wrong previously. I had initially added a 'stop();' but like a dimwit I added it to the initial timeline rather than adding it to the movie symbol's timeline. So, when I tried to test the movie it was blank because there was a stop command in the wrong spot.

This is obviously an appropriate solution if I just want to loop through the movie symbol once, but if I wanted to do it several times I suppose that I would actually need to program some sort of while loop or something like that (if that exists in ActiveScript). Am I right?

I guess making mistakes is the best way to learn. Thanks again for your advice.

[NTD]

Hi,

Numbered loops can be achieved with a count variable and an if statement. Consider the following....

Main timeline...

myCount=0;

Movieclip motion tween(10 frame motion tween moving object across stage). First frame of movieclip...

_root.myCount++;


Last frame of movieclip....

if(_root.myCount<=5){
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
}else{
stop();
}