Stop Looping SWF?

I am using Flash video, in the form of SWF files, in an
online game I am creating but I am having a problem where the video
clips constantly loop instead of playing once and stopping. Is this
looping caused by some type of setting I unknowingly made when I
created the SWF files or is it caused by the particular Flash
player that is running the video clips?
Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

you must explicitly stop the video stream. if you're using
the flvplayback class to start the video's play, you'll need to
apply the stop() method to that class instance.
you can access the main timeline of your external swf by
referencing the content property of your loader (and casting that
as a movieclip). from there, use the path to your flvplayback
instance and apply a stop() when the playheadPercentage of your
flvplayback instance reaches 100.

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Hi i'm new to AS, I am trying to use the AS3 Loader class to
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Code is below.

you must explicitly stop the video stream. if you're using
the flvplayback class to start the video's play, you'll need to
apply the stop() method to that class instance.
you can access the main timeline of your external swf by
referencing the content property of your loader (and casting that
as a movieclip). from there, use the path to your flvplayback
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Animated Gif won't stop looping!

I'll try to format my question as best I can.
I have created a Java chat applet, and for the Java chat, I have created a "ChatPane" class for displaying the chat. ChatPane is an extension of Canvas, and every time the paint() method is called, the program loops through visible lines of text drawing them on a buffer image, then draws the buffer on the screen.
My problem lies in animated gifs. In my chatroom, chatters can type textual symbols that will be replaced with an image (or emoticon). I have created my animated icons in a popular animated gif editing program, and I have set particular icons to loop 3 times. The problem is that when the animated icon is displayed in my applet, the animation -doesn't stop- after 3 loops, it loops forever! I can't for the life of me figure out why! Can anyone provide any insight as to why the animations won't stop after 3 loops? The animations work just fine if displayed in a browser by themselves (they stop looping after 3 times)
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[email protected]
Tony N.

From what I understand of your problem;
- You have made your own animated gifs
- With the software to make these gifs you have set them to loop their animations 3 times
- They loop continuously
I don't see how java can be expected to interpret the animated gif software instructions to loop only 3 times and would assume that there are various proprietry ways of setting this (an assumption based on applets /javascript etc, that rely on the client-side browser interpreter). So, if you loop your animated gif or have any form of animated gif that you import into your program with getDocumentBase /getCodeBase as a (pre-animated) gif, then this is exactly what I would assume would happen.
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smiley1[0];
smiley1[1];
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declare
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begin
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set_item_property('INTERRUPTCHECK.PB_OFF',ENABLED,PROPERTY_TRUE);
set_item_property('INTERRUPTCHECK.PB',ENABLED,PROPERTY_FALSE);
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for i in 1..:interruptcheck.loopcount LOOP
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Edited by: wael amar on May 1, 2010 11:03 PM

Ok, here's a working testcase.
The idea is taken from an article from an oracle magazine (i don't have it at hand, , so i tried to rebuild it by "memory". As far as i remember the original was from the german doag-magazine and was written by Gerd Volberg).
Procedure to do the looping:
PROCEDURE PR_DO_THE_LOOP IS
nNumberInOneStep NUMBER:=2;
tm               TIMER;
BEGIN
     DEFAULT_VALUE(0, 'GLOBAL.INDEX');
IF :GLOBAL.INDEX=0 THEN
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     :GLOBAL.MAX:=10000;
END IF;
LOOP
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     -- Decrease counter
     nNumberInOneStep:=nNumberInOneStep-1;
     -- Increase globale counter
     :GLOBAL.INDEX:=:GLOBAL.INDEX+1;
     -- Exit conditions
     EXIT WHEN nNumberInOneStep=0;
     EXIT WHEN TO_NUMBER(:GLOBAL.INDEX)>=TO_NUMBER(:GLOBAL.MAX);
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IF TO_NUMBER(:GLOBAL.INDEX)>=TO_NUMBER(:GLOBAL.MAX) THEN
     :GLOBAL.INDEX:=0;
ELSE
     -- start timer for next iteration
     tm:=CREATE_TIMER('TM', 10, NO_REPEAT);
END IF;
END;The WHEN-TIMER-EXPIRED-trigger
IF :GLOBAL.INTERRUPTED='Y' THEN
     MESSAGE('Interrupted at index ' || :GLOBAL.INDEX);
ELSE
     PR_DO_THE_LOOP;
END IF;The WHEN-BUTTOn-PRESSED-trigger on the interrupt-button
:GLOBAL.INTERRUPTED:='Y';The WHEN-BUTTOn-PRESSED-trigger on the "start"-button
:GLOBAL.INTERRUPTED:='N';
PR_DO_THE_LOOP;

Making my animation stop looping (it should be really simple, right?)

I am trying to achieve a simple thing really; I have made an animation and want it to stop looping at the end.
A quick search of the internet reassured me that this is simply a matter of putting in a stop(); command in the script. Great!
Errr.. no.
Here is what I did:
I created a new layer for my script and called it 'Actions'
selected the final frame of the Actions layer and added a keyframe
selected said keyframe and opened windows->Actions
typed in stop(); and closed the window.
Ok, so that apparently is all there is to it. Only, when I test the animation it doesn't move at all. it seems that the stop command executes right at the beginning and is constant throughout the whole timeline.
Also, I noticed that the Actions layer has a small white circle/dot on frame 1 and on the final frame also. There is no small letter 'a' that should be there on the final frame, but I don't know why.
So, what am I doing wrong?
I realise that if I am struggling to do such a simple task it doesn't bode well for any further learning of actionscript. Which is a shame.
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What you describe should have worked, but you might have mis-stepped as well. Try having the Actions window opened before you select the frame and type stop(); and leave it open afterwards as well for when you test. As soon as you enter some code in a frame it should display the lowercase "a", so your best bet is to keep trying it different ways until you see that. As I said, the way you describe it is legit, but what you might have done in following what you say might be off.

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undr my nose somewhwere....(Flash CS3 Pro).
Thanks

Another way to stop looping is to use "stop ()". Select the
last frame of any one of your timelines. Open the actions panel.
Place the code in the first line. This stopped my test movie from
looping.
Carmen

Can't stop loaded .swf from looping

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Loop swf 3 times and stop

I was sure that something would be posted here on writing
action script to make a flash banner loop only 3 times since this
is a fairly common standard for web banner advertising. I've been
unable to find this help or to make it work on my own.
My fla file has 85 frames. I tried adding this action script
to the 85th frame, but it doesn't seem like the var increases just
upon reaching frame 85. It's increasing multiple times in it's
first run from frame 0 to 85. I thought it wouldn't increase until
it went back to 1 and reached 85 again.
Cannot seem to get ATTACH CODE to go between paragraphs. This
is my last paragraph to read after code:
There must be an easier was to achieve this, but having spent
2 hours on it and searching online, I cannot figure it out. Do you
know? Oh, I should probably mention that I started out with this
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windowswarrior,
> Working in Flash CS2 so I'm pretty sure it's AS3.
However,
> your suggestion doesn't work. It just keeps looping.
Flash CS3 is the first in the Flash family to include a "CS"
in the
name, so you're either working with Flash CS3 (the first to
support
ActionScript 3.0) or ... maybe Flash 8? If the letter, then
you'll have to
use ActionScript 2.0 or lower. But now that I'm looking at
this code again,
the ActionScript 2.0 and 3.0 versions are so similar, it
really doesn't
matter in this case.
Let's assume ActionScript 3.0, and we'll take it step by
step.
Bear with me and start a new FLA file, because if we start
from scratch,
it's a lot more likely we'll catch what's going wrong where.
1) Select File > New and choose Flash File (ActionScript
3.0).
2) Select frame 1 of the main timeline, open your Actions
panel, and type
this:
var loop:int = 0;
So far, we're doing nothing more than creating a variable
(happens to be
an integer) in frame 1 and setting it to 0. (Previous code
showed :Number
instead of :int, and honestly, either one will do. Because
this number is
only going to be an integer, :int is technically the better
choice.)
3) Add a keyframe to frame 10. Enter the following
ActionScript in frame
10:
loop = loop + 1;
trace(loop);
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this.gotoAndPlay(2);
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this.stop();
At this point, the variable, loop, is incremented by 1. The
first time
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course, 1). Next, a
trace() function traces the value of loop to the Output
panel. You'll see
"1", without quotes, appear in the Output panel when the
playhead enters
this frame.
Next, an if() statement compares the value of loop (which is
currently
1) to the number 3. If it's less than 3 -- at this point, it
is -- the
playhead is sent back to frame 2. Otherwise, it stops.
4) Test your movie. In short order, you should see the
numbers 1, 2, and 3
appear in the Output panel. After that, nothing else --
because the
playhead has stopped at frame 10 and no longer loops.
Let me know if that happens for you.
David Stiller
Contributor, How to Cheat in Adobe Flash CS3
http://tinyurl.com/2cp6na
"Luck is the residue of good design."

Dreamweaver CS5 wont loop .swf file???

Hi there,
I am having a problem where i am trying to get a swf file to loop. I read on another thread that there is a bug in dreamweaver and although it automatically selects the loop button in the property inspector it does not add the code. But when i correct the code it still doesn't work! here is the code i am using:
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I really just want to figure out how to get dreamweaver to loop my swf file.
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thanks,
Matt

Hi
You wrote -
I made the swf file from an mp4 in flash so ive never had the original
.fla file. I have tried using a swf decompiler to get the fla file but
it doesnt seem to have worked but this is a side issue...
First welcome to the forum.
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You could use the html5 video element for your mp4 and if you have the original video file convert it to other formats for use in the html5 video, and then use the swf file as the fall back, this would allow your video to loop in those browsers that support this.
There are also 3rd party players available that will allow the swf to loop without editing but these will only work on windows.
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hello,
I am new to flash, and relatively new to dreamweaver.
I am trying to drop an swf file into a dreamweaver generated
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Many thanks, Damian.

Damian
You dont say what versions you have. Here's how I do it in MX
2004 Pro. From DW, on the page i want the SWF to play, I select
Insert, then Media, then Flash. Then select the file, and where on
the page, perhaps in its own table with a border, etc.
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The popup will have two options, Loop and Autoplay, at least in my
version. Even tho you published the SWF with Loop capability it
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necessary, another +, and "Autoplay", then "True."
Save, and this should do it.
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Steve

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I'm brand new to flash so cut me a little slack...
I'm in the middle of building a website in Flash CS4 in Action Script 3.0 and (according my the tutorial I'm using) I need to access the "parameters" panel. The problem is I don't see it anywhere. I see "properties" and "filters" but to parameters. I've cycled through all the workspace presets but with no luck. How can I bring it up??
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How to stop looping?

Forgive me but I am JUST learning. I have created a small
animation and I can't seem to stop it from looping. When I
published it, I went into settings and unchecked the loop box in
the HTML part and then saved it. When I open Internet Explorer and
go to file and open the HTML file it is just fine. But when I try
to place the file (.swf extension) into a page in Dreamweaver and
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Mirrasi wrote:
> Ugh, nevermind, I just found it. Looks like there is a
setting within Dreamweaver where I can unloop it. If I missed
anything let me know. Please ignore this newbie. hehe
it is always better to place stop(); whenever you want the
movie to stop.
The parameter "loop" won't always work, it pretty much vary
depends on
what browser you playing the movie in.
Best Regards
Urami
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www.AquiGorka.com

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