Simple loop on the main timeline

[iBabs2]

Hello,

I am very very new to actionscripting, so please bear with me.

I have a very simple banner that I would like to play 3 times and stop.

How can I do that in Actionscrip 3.0?

Thanks

babs

[Ned Murphy · Accepted solution]

Assuming you have a timelinme animation, one way of doing this is to keep a count of the number of times the timeline plays and to stop it when it reaches the end of the last run.  To do this you can add the following code to an actions layer in the first frame...

var count:uint;

if(!count){
count = 0;
}

and add this code in the last frame at the end of that same layer...

count += 1;
if(count == 3){
stop();
}

[iBabs2]

HI Ned,

It worked great!!!!

It is over my head...but it did work!!!

I actually understood the second keyframe at the end, after looking up the == stuff and learning about that count variable name you gave it, however the first part of it, is out my league for now...but as always, I will keep plugging at it.

Thank you so much for your help!!!

babs

[Ned Murphy]

You're welcome babs.  For the first part of it, I am doing something to prevent you from having to add a frame that you don't visit again.  I declare the var count, but don't assign it a value unless it has none, which it will not have when the animation first starts. If I had started it out in frame 1 with..

var count:uint = 0;

then everytime it looped back to frame 1 it would reset count to 0... which would mean you'd have to loop back to frame 2 instead of frame 1.

So I have it test if count has no value assigned and assign it a zero in that case only.  That way, when it loops back to frame 1, the value of count is not reset because it has a value by that time.

[iBabs2]

Hi Ned,

Thanks so much, that makes a little more sense.......every little bit helps......
I know I will never be great at this, but every time I get into something, I just keep learning more and more.

People like you, really help...so thanks so much!

babs