if frame is greater than...

im workin on a game:

http://www.geocities.com/fivehitcombo

but when you shoot the badguy while he is already in a death animation, he will restart the death animation. so i was thinkin need a statement on the enemy's mc that said "if frame is greater than 18(begining of death animation) then dont play the animation again...how do i do this? surely the use of ! somewhere???:confused:

heres what im using now to trigger the play of the death animation, if this is needed...

Code:

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onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
        if (this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
                gotoAndPlay(19);
        }
}

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how do i do what i need to do for this? i dont know the proper syntax.

Code:

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onClipEvent (mouseDown) {
        if (dead!=true && this.hitTest(_root._xmouse, _root._ymouse, true)) {
                dead=true;
                gotoAndPlay(19);
        }
}

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alternatively you could just check the _currentframe property of the movie clip using methods like

if (_root.badguy._currentframe == 1) {
// do death animation
}