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pixel peasant
pixel peasant
Inspiring
April 12, 2016
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How do I stop a movie clip from looping at end of my main timeline?

  • April 12, 2016
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I have searched and tried a lot of suggestions and couldn't quite find a solution to my specific challenge.

I am using Adobe Animate CC to produce HTML5 banner ads, so it is set-up as a HTML5 Canvas document.

My main timeline is 15 seconds long and all animation has to stop at 15 seconds. While I have been using Flash for years I never considered myself any good at Actionscript.

On one of the layers of my Main Timeline, I have placed a short Movie Clip (85 frames) which I would like to loop until the end of the Main Timeline (356 frames).

How do I stop the Movie Clip or multiple instances of the MC at the end of the main timeline?

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks

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Correct answer pixel peasant

Well

1. I have deleted the layer my movie clip was on.

2. Added a new layer with new instance name of the Movie Clip

3. added new-instance-name.stop(); to the actions layer, last frame, in the main timeline

And the movie clip is back to looping infinitely.

I've always thought flash was flaky, and I definitely think the HTML5 canvas is flaky. For instance, the file still exports a background image that exists nowhere in the file, but was from a previous banner ad, that I have copied and renamed to update art and copy. So I have been overwriting that background image manually with one save out of Photoshop. That has been happening every since I started using HTML5 canvas setup.


Apparently, some syntax was wrong.

So on the final frame of actions layer on main timeline add:

this.instance-name-of-movie-clip.stop();

this worked

2 replies

C
ClayUUID
Legend
April 12, 2016

You're supposed to put the code I gave you on the last frame of the main timeline, not the first.

pixel peasant
pixel peasantAuthor
Inspiring
April 12, 2016

I double checked, it is only on the last frame.

C
ClayUUID
Legend
April 12, 2016

Yet it's stopping the movieclip before the main timeline reaches the end?

rezun8
rezun8
Inspiring
April 12, 2016

have you tried

this.stop();

    pixel peasant
    pixel peasantAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 12, 2016

    Good question.

    Yes. I have that on an Actions layer at the last frame of the Scene 1 timeline. The looping movie clip just continues looping.

    C
    ClayUUID
    Legend
    April 12, 2016

    You have to give the movieclip a name, like "adblockisgreat". Then put this code on the main timeline:

    adblockisgreat.stop();

    That will stop the clip playing.

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