How to loop a movie twice?

Hi,

I would like to loop a movie twice. How should I write the script?

I add an action to the last frame of the movie, a ball jumping for example which has one layer only. Below are the codes I wrote:

Set Variable:"index" = "1"
If (index < 3)
Go to and Play (1)
Set Variable:"index" = "index + 1"
End If

The above codes seems to cause the movie to loop infinitely. How should I loop a movie twice? And how should I loop a movie that has a lot of layers?


Thanks for your help.

Hi !

Just say in last keyframe

If (something=1)
Stop
Else
Set Variable: "something" = "1"
End If

:)

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Good luck !
Ilya. -Polar Lights Studios-
Flash sources page

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Ilya:
Hi !

Just say in last keyframe

If (something=1)
Stop
Else
Set Variable: "something" = "1"
End If

:)
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

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Thanks Ilya. It works.

However, why when it is replayed, it won't loop twice?

Hi !

Before replaying try say
Set Variable: "something" = "0"

:)

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Good luck !
Ilya. -Polar Lights Studios-
Flash sources page

Hi Ilya,

I have tried putting this line:

Set Variable:"something" = "0"

before the if..else statements. But this will cause the movie to loop infinitely.

What could be wrong?

Set Variable:"index" = "1"
If (index &lt; 3)
Go to and Play (1)
Set Variable:"index" = "index + 1"
End If


You need to remove some quotes:


Set Variable:"index" = 1
If (index &lt; 3)
Go to and Play (1)
Set Variable:"index" = index + 1
End If


Try That...

DD

your problem is;
Set Variable:"index" = "1"

every time it get to the frame it resets "index" to 1 so it will never be 3

you don't need;
Set Variable:"index" = "1"

has it will assume that it is zero

you just need

if (index &lt; 2)
Go to and Play (1)
Set Variable:"index" = "index + 1"
End If

This should work

CheerZ
:D rosie

;)

Didnt see that problem with setting index to 1 every loop. That's a problem too.

Good luck in fixing it


DD

I recommend incrementing your index before your go to and play...better coding practice, plus I'm not sure how flash interprets commands after a Goto statment..

if (index &lt; 2)
Set Variable:"index" = "index + 1"
Go to and Play (1)
End If

Hi again onk !

I dont know why, but now i don't understand what is the problem :)
Can you just put .fla somethere and say URL ? :)

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Good luck !
Ilya. -Polar Lights Studios-
Flash sources page

Hi all,

Thanks for your help. It still loops infinitely.

The following code works but it will not loop when it is replayed:

If(index = 1)
stop
Else
Set Variable:"index" = "1"
End If

So the following statement is added before the if...else statement:

Set Variable:"index" = "0"

But this cause the infinite loop again.

I think the reason is because....
when the index is first set to 0, it will enter the else loop, so index will become 1 and come out of the loop. Then it will start from the begining of the coding again. And the index is set to 0 again and went into the else loop again.

This will cause it to loop infinitely.

So I tried to search Flash Help whether it has while loop. I think it doesn't, only have Loop While(). So I tried the following:

Set Variable:"index" = "0"
Loop While(index &lt; 2)
If(index = 1)
stop
Else
Set Variable:"index" = "1"
End If
End Loop

However, this doesn't help too. Anyway, my assignment is done. Just want to know why it cannot loop twice when it is replayed.

Thanks a lot. If you have a better way to loop a movie, do let me know.

I assume when you say "loop a movie twice", what you want is to play your movie 2 times and stop it. Following that theory:

Last frame of movie:

If (count &lt; 1)...(or N)
Set Variable: "count" = count + 1
Go to and Play(1)
Else
Stop
End If

Where "count" will always = (boolean)0 if it hasn't been initialized, as in the first play of the movie. This makes the movie into a 2 frame loop...another way to loop instead of using "Loop While"...you can also control the speed of the loop by adding frames between the keyframes.

For frame 1's initializing of "count" = 1 (or more):

Frame 1:

Set Variable: "count" = 1 (or n)

Frame 2:

No actions

Frame 3

If (count &lt; N)
Set Variable: "count" = count + 1
Go to and Play(2)
Else
Stop
End If

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Count ends at N, movie stops.

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[This message has been edited by Dickee (edited 28 April 2000).]

Make the 1rst and 2nd frames of your movie identical.
Use the loop code that was working for you without reseting the variable to 0 at the beginning.
Except have the go to pointing at frame 2.

have variable = 0
at frame 1
then a go to a play frame 3
(so that you don't play the duplicate frame in 2)

Hope this works for you.

Guys, allways use initialisiton frames, and whole bunch of such problems simply go away. ;)

Just use some dummy keyframes before *real* start to setup global vars (vars that should be static) and youre done. In the example above do:

1st dummy keyframe - Set Variable "z" = 1

(movie starts at 2nd - label "Start")

last keyframe - If (z=2)
Stop
Else
Set variable "z" = z + 1
Go to and Play (Start)
EndIf
It will loop exactly twice.
Best,
Igor

Answer of all answers
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Create a new layer in your flash file, name it Actionscript. On the first frame of the movie on the actionscript layer, insert this :

_global.z = 0;

Now, move the rest of your movie layers (not actionscript layer) so that there is nothing else on frame 1 besides the actionscript layer.

Now, make a new keyframe one frame after the last frame of your movie on the actionscript layer. Insert this code :

if (_global.z == 3)
{
stop();
}
else
{
_global.z = _global.z + 1;
gotoAndPlay(2);
}

You can change 3 to be however many times you want the movie to loop. That's all.

Just put this in the last frame of you movie..u dont need to do anything else:

Code:

---

var noOfLoops = 2;

if (loop == undefined) {
        loop = 1;
} else {
        loop++;
        if (loop == noOfLoops) {
                stop();
        }
}

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