How to play looping animation in ActionScript through certain range of frames?

Hi Saoirseg

While ClayUUID rightfully suggests to put looping animation cycles in its own dedicated movieclip, your approach of having all animations contained in one character symbol might also make sense in some cases.

Your attempt with enterFrame seems odd though:

function character_enterFrameHandler(event: Event):void {
    if (characterMoving_Right == true) {
        if (character.currentFrame <= "rightWalk_End") {
            character.nextFrame();
        } else {
            character.gotoAndStop("rightWalk_Start");
        }
    }
}

First of all it seems too much of an overhead to have this ticking each FPS and secondly is there a frame after "rightWalk_End" to further go with nextFrame()? And thirdly: gotoAndStop("rightWalk_Start")? Stop? How can it loop when being stopped?

Anyway, having already the variable characterMoving_Right, a Boolean I presume, why not putting in frame "rightWalk_End" the code

if (characterMoving_Right) {
    gotoAndPlay("rightWalk_Start");
}

?

Klaus

The fact that you're already trying to use scripting to fight Animate's default behavior should have been your first clue that you're Doing It Wrong.

Put each looping animation cycle in its own looping clip. That's what they're for.