Flash animation keeps looping
Hi,
I built a Flash animation which keeps looping. I am trying to get it to not loop
at all and it refuses.
Here is the code of the html page, as created by Flash CS5:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>animate_van</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
html, body { height:100%; background-color: #d1d1d1;}
body { margin:0; padding:0; overflow:hidden; }
#flashContent { width:100%; height:100%; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="flashContent">
<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="940" height="116" id="animate_van" align="middle">
<param name="movie" value="animate_van.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#d1d1d1" />
<param name="play" value="true" />
<param name="loop" value="false" />
<param name="wmode" value="window" />
<param name="scale" value="showall" />
<param name="menu" value="true" />
<param name="devicefont" value="false" />
<param name="salign" value="" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<!--[if !IE]>-->
<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="animate_van.swf" width="940" height="116">
<param name="movie" value="animate_van.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<param name="bgcolor" value="#d1d1d1" />
<param name="play" value="true" />
<param name="loop" value="false" />
<param name="wmode" value="window" />
<param name="scale" value="showall" />
<param name="menu" value="true" />
<param name="devicefont" value="false" />
<param name="salign" value="" />
<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
<!--<![endif]-->
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflash">
<img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.gif" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" />
</a>
<!--[if !IE]>-->
</object>
<!--<![endif]-->
</object>
</div>
</body>
</html>
The looping value is set to false above, also in Flash my publish settings are set to not loop.
Assuming the animation is timeline based, then you need to place a stop(); command in the last frame of the timeline.
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