Loop help

[w00ds]

I am something of a Flash newjack, so bear with me.... Is there any way to make an animation or movie clip loop a specified number of times and stop... sounds simple, but i can't for the life of me figure it out... i don't mean using actionscripts... because (thanks to this site) i even know how to put a text box in an animation, enter a number from 1-9 and have the animation to loop that many times... but i want to know how i would go about programming a set number of loops in an animation... HELP!!!!!

THANKS

[GreatGooglyWoogly]

There are several ways that you can do this. Here is one:

Start your animation on Frame 2
In Frame 1, define a variable and give it a value of 1
In the last frame of your animation, put the following code in the action tab:

If (Variable Name = # )
Go to and Stop (1)
Else
Set Variable: "Variable Name" = Variable Name +1
Go to and Play (2)
End If

All this method does is set a variable to a value and then increment the value by 1 each time the animation plays. When the variable equals the specified #, the animation stops. Not elegant, but it does work.

Variable Name is the name you give your variable.
# is the number of times you want it to animate.

Hope this helps!

[w00ds]

thanks googly, but everything worked except for the last line.... when i typed END IF, it says that there was an error in the scripting... i have flash5... could this be the reason why? it doesn't seem to recognize END IF as a command....

[gnogic]

you could also end your movie in the timeline by inserting a blank keyframe