Flash :: Why Is The Movie Not Looping?

Looping & Non-looping Components In Same Movie
I'm new to using Flash MX, and would be grateful if someone could give me some advice for this animation I'm trying to do.

I'm making a banner for a website that is being designed by someone else. The background consists of four photos that fade in and out continuously (I think "looping" is the correct term) as soon as the animation (movie?) opens up. That part wasn't too hard!

However, the client wants a name (in white text) to gradually fade in on top of the looping background, and stay visible and static for as long as the looping animation plays. As well, after the white name fades in and becomes static, she needs another name (in gold text) to gradually appear and start fading in and out below it.

So the sequence is:
- Looping background begins to play.
- The name (in white text) gradually fades in (say at around frame 50) and stays visible (alpha at 100%) while the background is looping.
- Around frame 100 a second name (in gold text) fades in and then starts fading in and out continuously in synch with the looping background.

I can't figure out how to do this. Do I need multiple time lines? Or triggers in various frames? Or different scenes?

I have a sinking feeling that I'm going to have to use Actionscript for this, and although I'm perfectly willing to learn, I haven't a clue where to start. Could anyone help, please?

Movie Looping...
i'm probably missing something simple, but how do i keep my swf file from looping repeatedly when it's viewed???

thanks for any help!

Movie Looping
I created a flash movie and uploaded it to a club in Cybertown. Before that, when checking it in my html editor, I had added the code that the Flash Help gives for stopping the movie from looping, and it worked. However, after uploading it, it does loop. This leads me to believe that I don't have the right code in the html. Could any of you possibly tell me what it is I need to insert into the html to get it to quit? Thanks =)

Looping Movie
I do not want my movie to loop, when it is over, i want a link saying "enter" or soemthing like that. When I publish it, the movie doesnt stop, it re runs itself. How do I "unloop" it? the only way i know of is to go to "control" and "unloop" but it doesnt seem to be working. thank you very much for considering to help.

Movie Keeps Looping
I made a movie, and exported to html, i uploaded it to my website. It is working but the movie keeps looping, help! i tried several things like loop="off" but it didn't work
Heeeelllllp..............

[NG]chucky

My Movie Keeps Looping. Plz Help
Im very new so if anyone can help me plz be very specific. I just want my intro to my site to play only once and then stay at the menu thanks.....

Movie Looping
I've created a simple intro in Flash 5... it's out on the web site right now (www.americandivas.net)... however, the problem is that it's looping continuously... I want it to stop at the end. I looked at looping within Flash under CONTROL... and LOOPING is turned off.

What am I doing wrong?

Jim

Looping Movie
this has been sent back to me three times now because the client can't sleep at night due to the slight twitch. does anyone know how to generate this effect with actionscript. i have tried to get rid of the twitch three different ways. i've succeeded in reducing the twitch but it is still not good enough. help Please.

Looping A Movie...
How do i loop a movie and make the movie go faster after each loop?

Is there any way other than to delete keyframes, in order for the movie to look as though it is going faster?

Can you somehow change the frame rate when the movie reaches a certain point?

hope this makes sense

thankyou,

calpin

How To Keep Movie From Looping?
I was wondering how can you keep an swf file from looping, besides being a user option?

Movie Keeps Looping
Hi,need help with disabling continuous movie playback! Tried all the options already (in Publish Settings,Flash Player)even added an ActionScript entry <Stop()>to a timeline. Still,my intro file keeps on playing back. Idea is that it will play once (when visitor opens my page) then stops at the end and holds the last frame until you click on a button linking to my main page. Probably very simple question, but I just can't figure it out.. Please help.

Looping Movie Only Once
I created a movie and only want it to play twice, then stop. Can anyone help?

Looping .swf Movie
I downloaded some .swf games to add to my website that constantly loop the opening movie. These files work fine on the vendors web site and on my hard drive but on my server nothing. My test page is at http://www.sierra-sky.com/Games/Hoops/bball.htm if anyone would care to see what I'm talking about.
My mime handler (application/x-shockwave-flash) is loaded so I am totally stumped. I hope I'm not beating a dead horse with this as I know others have had the same problem but I've yet to find a solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Movie Keeps Looping
Hi all
I have a small problem which is driving me insane. I have a made, or should I say I am making a small animation for a client and it also has a prelaoder. To the preloader i have added a small movie animation. Now the problem is that when the preloader loads it does show the animation, but the animation keeps looping.

I have deactiveated looping in my DW MX software and i have made sure that looping is deactivated in the movie and the preloader. But it still loops.
Does any one have any ideas? The page with the looping animation is here: Flash animation

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Help With Movie Looping
I've produced a Flash movie (MX 2004) that loops once. The movie consists of a series of MCs that run independently of the main timeline. The main timeline has a single frame (with 6 layers), each MC being on seperate layer. The movie clips are timed to start using the method of empty frames on their own respective timelines.

This works perfectly. But now I need to loop the movie 3 times. I've tried adding a 'goToAndPlay' action on the main timeline, but this isn't working for me. How can I make the movie loop 3 times?

Looping A Swf Movie
ive been looking the other posts involving this and they just wont work for me,
all i want to do is loop my little movie for my website but it just wont loop ive clicked the loop button and all that but it just wont loop, can anyone please help , ive imported my movie to the stage and selected progressive download etc and the movie is there its just what to do next

Why Is The Movie Not Looping?
Please check this file out !( Attachment )
The movie is 12 frames long !
I have an action placed in frame no. 11 which says :

if(_framesloaded = 12) {
gotoAndStop(12);
}else{
gotoAndPlay(10);
}

This means that if the movie is not loaded , it will loop between 10 and 11.
I have a movie clip on frame no. 10 and frame 11 is empty, this means that , the movie clip (a square ) should blink !
Also , the movie when its loaded stops at 11 rather than going to stop at frame no 12 as per the actionscript !
Please help !

Looping Movie Twice
Hello,

I created a movie with a blank keyframe at the beginning, and then the main content starts on frame 2. Here's the AS in frame 1:

_global.z = 0;

I have a label on frame 2: "start"

The AS at frame 140 is the following:

stop();
if (_global.z == 2)
{
gotoAndPlay("ending");
}
else
{
_global.z = _global.z + 1;
gotoAndPlay("start");
}

Frame 141 is labeled "ending"

Here's the AS on the last frame:

stop();

I want the main content to loop twice and then play the frames starting at "ending," then stop. The .swf is looping the main content infinitely and not playing the ending.

Thanks very much for any help!

-Midori

Looping Movie
hey, I added that code you gave me, and now I get
this

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 11: Operator '=' must be followed by an operand
trace(info.code);

**Error** Scene=Scene 1, layer=actions, frame=1:Line 12: Syntax error.
if (info.code == "NetStrem.Play.Stop) {

Total ActionScript Errors: 2 Reported Errors: 2

Looping Movie B Until Movie A Stops
Hey Flash Experts! Please help me with my project. I have two movies in my Main movie namely Movie A & Movie B. Movie A ends in frame 54 while Movie B ends in frame 11. In the Main movie, I included Movie A and B, How can I loop Movie B until Movie A stops. Do I have to use an actionsript? what actionsript the I'm going to use for that. Thanks...

A Non Looping Movie Clip
yes,
how can I stop a Movie Clip from looping ?
Thanks

Stop Movie Looping
How do I stop the movie from looping when it starts??? is this possible???

Looping Layers, Not Movie
hello,
i suppose this is a basic question but.. i dont know the answer so here goes:

i want to continually loop one layer of my movie while the others stop.

is there an easy way to do this with action script or whatever???

thanx in advance
Alexoras

Looping Movie Clips.....
Hi
I hope someone can help me with my little problem. It may seem like piece of cake for some, but not to me...
I have a movieclip that I want to loop 3 times and then go to another frame in the main movie/scene. The main movie/scene has only 2 frames, the first where the mc is placed and the second will be a link. Im sure I can have that last frame inside the mc aswell...
Anything will work, as long as i can play the mc 3 times and the go to another frame, without having to duplicate alle the frames in the MC.

TIA

PMAndersen

Looping A FLASHtyper Movie
ok, im very new to flash, and i have no idea wat im doing. i have made a banner using the FLASHtyper tool, and i would like 2 make it loop. im using flash MX (trial - i cant afford the full thing). could n e 1 tell me how 2 make the banner loop over and over? and if possible, tell me how 2 make it link 2 my site when clicked. bare in mind, i really dont know wat im doing, so detailed instructions would b appreciated.
ty, Angel

Looping Movie Clip
Hi
(Sorry for duplicating this question as I posted it in another section but it is better suited here) anyway........

I wish to know if there is a script to loop a movie clip.
Currently it loops continously using gotoAndPlay (1)
but i only want it to loop 3 times and then stop. Please make it simple as I am not very action script savvy, and can you tell me where the script goes too please.

Thanking you
Miffy

:-)

Looping Movie Clip
i know it sounds silly but...i don't know how to go about it.
how do i loop a movie clip for 4 times?

Looping Only Part Of Your Movie
I would like to be able to have just one object loop over and over in my movie while everything else remains stopped. If someone can give me some instructions on how to import a flash file that will loop over and over while everything else remains locked that would be great.

Thanks in advance.

Looping Part Of A Movie
I have made a movie that is 400 frames long.
I want to loop the last 200 frames after the movie plays once.
Please be gentle with me.
I haven't learned any actionscript yet, and am pretty sure I need it for what I want to do.
Thanks in advance.

Movie Looping Incorrectly
hi there,

my movie is looping once played, even though i have a stop(); on the last frame.

i have used several basic movie clips within the movie which also have stop(); on the last frame.

also, when publishing i have loop unchecked.

is there some simple thing i am overlooking here??

mike

Looping Movie Clips
I have a question... (suprise!).. I'll try not to make it too complicated.

In a main menu of my project I have four boxes that contain movie clips of images f ading in and out... theres 6 images for each box but when it's done I want it to start back at the begening again... should I place a gotoandplay(1) at the end of the movie clip? is that the proper way to do it?

and also... do I need to extend the frame # of the original menu to the same number the movie clip would extend to? it doesnt seem to play unless i do that? Am i doing something wrong?

I appreciate any replies,

Thanks.

Flash 5 Movie Looping
I've created a simple intro in Flash 5... it's out on the web site right now (www.americandivas.net)... however, the problem is that it's looping continuously... I want it to stop at the end. I looked at looping within Flash under CONTROL... and LOOPING is turned off.

What am I doing wrong?

Jim

Stop A Movie From Looping?
hi,

i have a movie file embedded in my flash document that i would like to stop looping so that a button within that movie file can be clicked. otherwise, it keeps going around and around without just stopping.

the general idea is that my file first opens with things flying in, representing the background, and then in the middle of that, a movie starts playing which involves a series of words fading in that ask the viewer to click in order to continue. i want the movie to pause there until the user clicks the button. i have a button made and everything, and the action works when its clicked, i just cannot figure out how to make the movie pause and wait for the viewer to click on it.

if this is not enough information, please email me or IM me at thesilly@aol.com thank you very very much!

Looping Through Movie Instances ?
I have an image, which I have broken up into 100 movies. I have named them square1 to square100. I'm trying to programmatically make each one appear by setting the visibility property to true using a loop.

Does anyone know how I can substitute the var i in the command below so that it is read as a movie instance...

----------------------------------------------
for (var i=1;i<=100;i++){
_root.logo.square+i._visible = true;

}
----------------------------------------------

How To Stop A Movie From Looping...?
Hi...
I have that "stop" action in the last frame of my movie, yet it is still playing...?

Click Here For An Example

I have a page with a left hand frame and bottom frame. In the main frame, I have the ".SWF" file playing - yet it keeps looping.

Also, in my "publish settings" - I have the "Loop" term unchecked.

Anyone know what the problem is and how I can fix it?

Thanks,
Dan

Looping Movie Problem
Hi,

I am doing some preliminary work for a project I am planning in Flash MX. One of the key features of it is that it will pick up a data file (with variables 'variable1', 'variable2', 'variable3' and so on) and it will see if there is a 'variable1' and then set a text box with the value of that variable and then fade the text box in and out. Once it has faded out, it will loop back to frame 1 where it will look for 'variable2' and then do the same and again for 'variable3' and so on.
I am changing the variable to look for using the following code

Code:
variableCount=1;
thisVariable=eval("variable"+variableCount);

when the text box has faded out (on frame 30), I do the following

Code:
variableCount++;
gotoAndPlay(1);

The problems I am having with this is the followingThe variable 'variableCount' is not incrementing. I have tried adding _root., _level0. and _global. infront of it, but it hasn't made any difference.Every time it loops back, another instance of the movie is created (as I found from looking at the debugging window). I need a way for this to loop but without creating a new instance every time as the final project will be looping round constantly for weeks at a time and I do not want to slow the computer down or use up too much system resources.
The final project will be run as a projector file and the data will come from a php driven data file but for the moment, I have just set up 4 variables in frame 1. I have also added a box that is only shown for half the time so I can visually see when it has looped.

I have attached the file to this message and it would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help me with this problem.

Best regards,

Matthew Dingley

www.matthewdingley.co.uk

Looping A Movie Clip
Ok, so here's the deal. Inside my flash movie, I have a movie clip symbol set up using actions to loop from frame 85 to 20 continously. No problems there. But the problem I have is whenever I put it on the main movie, it applys the action to the entire scene1 instead of just that particular clip. Is there any way to have an action loop just a clip, and not the scene its in? Thank you for your help and patience.

Looping Movie Clips
How do you stop an imported movie clip from looping in the final published swf file? I have put stop actions on the first and last frames of the imported movie clip -- and replaced it in the final, but it still loops continuosly. Can someone help me with this?

Looping Section Of Movie
im making an intro for a site, and I have the video at the begining, then the video fades out to a "Click Here" with text rotaing around "Click Here".....but I want the click here w/roating text to loop over and over instead of having the video play over again. Can somone help me out cause I can't remember how to do, been 4ever since I messed with it

Looping A Movie Clip?
i have a horizontal scrolling navbar that i am trying to 'loop' so as you scroll across it seams endlessly. or if not that, have it reach its x axis limits and stop the scrolling when it reaches the end of the scrolling navbar. fla file is included, am using flash 5...

Looping And A Movie Clip
I have a movie clip of an animation that i want to stop at a certain frame, hold still, and then resume when the movie loops. Is there any easy way of doing this? I tried putting stop(): at the end of the clip, but it doesn't start up again when the movie loops. Any advice would be nice.

How Can I Stop My Movie From Looping?
I used the tutorial on 'Loading movies into target: Flash MX' from http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/l...:%20Flash%20MX
and got my movie loaded and playing when a button is pushed. However, it loops over and over. What can I do to stop it from looping and make it go back to the menu when it's done playing?

thanks

My Movie Won't Stop Looping
Firstly, I admit I'm new to Flash MX, but I've gone through all the correct procedures (I believe) to prevent my flash movie from looping (and tried a few new ones) but the ****** thing still loops....

Any ideas?

Movie Keeps Looping Problems
i have a problem that is making my last few hairs turn gray. any help on this would be greatly appreciated:
i have created 2 movies. the first one is a prelaoding set of layers with the second movie imported into the first one. The second movie seems to be looping and i cannot get it to stop.

i have:
-published both movies not to loop.
-put a
Code:
stop();
at the end of each movie

here are the locoations of the files for your viewing (please don't laugh, it's been over 4 years since i last used flash):

Code:
http://www.alabamaflyfishers.com/images/flash/beta.swf

Code:
http://www.alabamaflyfishers.com/images/flash/preloader2.swf

once again, any help will be greatly appreciated,
grant

Looping Movie Clip
I’m designing a Flash intro which I’ve divided across 5 scenes to keep everything neat and easy to edit.
In each scene there’s a movie clip of a rotating ring lasting 60 frames, it's looped.
If my scenes are in multiplies of 60 (60, 120, 180 frames and so on) the ring rotates fine but if my scene is not an exact multiple of 60 the animation jumps back to the start as is moves from one scene to the second. As the second scene also contains the movie clip.

Is there anyway around this without having to put all the frames within the one scene?

Thanks

Looping Movie With External Swf.
I am working on this animation http://sabreteckdesign.co.uk/sitedesign/index.php but severa users have said that the flash site just continually loops, bare in mind that it has external .txts and external swfs in the site, but i have placed a stop command on the last frame and unchecked loop both in dreamweaver and publish settings, can any give me any advice to prevent the continual looping, help will be much appreciated.

Does A Looping Movie Progressively Use Up Ram?
My flash file on publish has a movie looping in it to start with, i disable visibilty with all buttons except the home button.
The home button makes it visible, is this chewing up the viewers Ram?
Its still playing in the backgroud when not visible.
My question is does rthe flash file zero out the ram usage on every loop, or does every loop add 600k of Ram (the flash movie file size) to the used ram, therefore ten loops 6meg?

if it is using Ram is there code to clear the ram usage every loop?
Or is the only way to do it to attach movie and replace it with a new movie on a click of a new button bringing on a new movie?

Hope I was clear
thanks
A

Keep Movie Clip From Looping
well,

I created a MC that fades up.
I place it in the main timeline of scene 1 at, say, frame 60 (the only scene).
I would like the movie clip to fade in and then remain faded up,
however, it keeps looping. Fading up, then fading up again.
I have tried stop();
I have tried end();
I have set rewind = false;
I thought that if you put the stop action at the end of the mc it would stop looping.
What could be causing this?