How to play a symbol ONCE at a specific scroll position?

Question

Hello there,
I was wondering if it's possible to trigger a symbol to play when a user scrolls past a specific scroll point just once?
I've managed to create a trigger for a symbol which will fire at a specific scroll position but it fires multiple times (when the user continues to scroll)
I tried using:
'==' eqivalent to, so that it would only trigger at a certain scroll point, but this only triggers the symbol to play if the user uses their mouse scroll wheel and doesn't play if the user uses the window scrollbar.
Here's my code (apologies if it's messy I only started learning JQuery a week ago):
$(window).scroll(function() {
     var mySymbolObject = sym.getSymbol("rollHead");
      var y_scroll_pos = window.pageYOffset;
     var scroll_pos_test = 500;           
    if(y_scroll_pos > scroll_pos_test) {
          sym.$("rollHead").show();
          mySymbolObject.play(1000);
      if(y_scroll_pos < scroll_pos_test) {
   sym.$("rollHead").hide();
          mySymbolObject.stop();
I know that the '.one' handler (if that's the correct term) can cause an event to trigger just once, but I can't seem to get it to work.
Any help or advice would be much appreciated.
Thank you very much.
Jon
P.S. I just want to say a MASSIVE thank you to Adobe for making Edge. It is an incredible tool and the fact that it is free makes it a million times better.

Answer 1

Hello Mr Blix,
I pretty much just copied and pasted what Elaine wrote.
So, I went to my stage actions - clicked 'composition ready'
And put in this:
sym.setVariable("symbolPlayed", false);
var mySymbolObject = sym.getSymbol("rollHead");
$(window).scroll(function() {
    var y_scroll_pos = window.pageYOffset;
    var scroll_pos_test = 500;           
       if(y_scroll_pos > scroll_pos_test) {
var symbolPlayed = sym.getVariable("symbolPlayed");
if (!symbolPlayed) {
    sym.$("rollHead").show();
    mySymbolObject.play(1000);
    sym.setVariable("symbolPlayed", true);
All you'd need to change for you own composition (if that's the right word) is to replace:
var mySymbolObject = sym.getSymbol("rollHead"); - with your own symbol name.
var scroll_pos_test = 500;  - with the position you want the event to trigger.
sym.$("rollHead").show(); - with your own symbol name again.
mySymbolObject.play(1000) - with the time on your symbol's timeline that you want it to play.
I'm still learning JQuery and don't really understand how the 'SymbolPlayed' works, but I assure you it does.
Here's a screengrab of my 'stage actions' code.
Hope that helps!
Jon