Problem with animation loop in AS3

I'm having a problem doing an animation loop (a walk cycle in
this case) in CS3. I never had this problem in Studio 8 and am
wondering if I've gone crazy or if something has changed in CS3.
The animation cycle works fine so long as I have it loop
without using ActionScript, but when I try to loop it using
gotoAndPlay it skips the last frame (i.e., the frame that the code
is on). I tried adding an extra frame at the end and placing the
code on it... it works a bit better, but there's still a bit of odd
timing during the looping.
Interestingly, when I save the fla as a Studio 8 file, it
works fine (if I include that extra frame at the end). I may be
misremembering, but it seemed to me that Studio 8 didn't require
that extra frame before CS3.
Has anyone else seen this? Anyone have a solution to share
(I'm planning to use ActionScript3, so saving as Studio 8 won't
solve my problems)?

Sim-Enzo,
> Interestingly, when I save the fla as a Studio 8 file,
it works
> fine (if I include that extra frame at the end). I may
be
> misremembering, but it seemed to me that Studio 8 didn't
> require that extra frame before CS3.
It shouldn't require that extra frame, but I wonder if
you've somehow
configured your FLA's publish settings for a version of
ActionScript you're
not actually using.
> Has anyone else seen this? Anyone have a solution to
share
> (I'm planning to use ActionScript3, so saving as Studio
8
> won't solve my problems)?
If your file works fine in Flash 8, then you must be using
ActionScript
2.0 (or lower) for the time being. Based on what you've
described, I can't
imagine what's going awry. Can you make that FLA available
online
somewhere? See if you can reproduce this issue with a
simplified version,
in case your company's policies (or whatever reason(s)) keep
you from
uploading the real file somewhere.
I'll take a look.
David Stiller
Adobe Community Expert
Dev blog,
http://www.quip.net/blog/
"Luck is the residue of good design."

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