Hi all -

I am working with Flash and actionscript, and I know that there must be a way to make this happen, but I'm a bit stuck.

Here is the work in progress so far: http://www.jessweiss.com/pt/index.html

I am talking about the movie called books1, at the top of the page, with the steaming coffee cup.

This movie is several layers.

What I want to do is add an additional movie clip, which will only play one time, while the rest of the movie keeps repeating. All I have been able to accomplish is getting it to play once, but it resets and replays each time the larger, existing movie plays.

I've tried lots of different code, but none if it seems to be working.

I keep reading something about inserting actionscript into the movie clip using something along this line:

for (var i:Number=0; i<1; i++)
{; stop()};

or along this line:

if (count<1 {count++; gotoandPlay(1);}
else {stop();}

But, it doesn't keep it from resetting when the larger movie resets - it just keeps it at stop for that one play of the larger movie.

So, what am I missing here? TIA!

If it's any help - here is the url -

http://www.jessweiss.com/pt/index.html

As you can see, the "ink splot" is resetting every time the movie resets - the movie length is three steam trails - roughly. I'm happy to send the .fla if anyone thinks it will help.

Anyone, anyone?

I'll take a look at it if you want, definitely have to see the FLA file. PM me and I can give you an email address to send it to.

Do you have a stop action at the end of the ink blot movie clip ?

I'm not an AS guru by any means, and I know this is OLD AS, but this is what I used to use.

In the ending frame you add this AS:

if (loopCounter < 3) {
this.gotoAndPlay(1);
}
else{
this.stop();
}

In the beginning frame, you set up the loop counter:

loopCounter++;

As I said, this is Actionscript 1.0, but it might help you figure out what you can do with current AS.

I haven't programmed flash in a long while, but I would suggest that you need to extend the timeline to have three more "steam trails" while keeping the ink blot as a static keyframe.
Then at the end of the timeline loop back to the static inkblot keyframe rather than to frame 0.