How Do You Prevent Flash Animations From Looping?
Some Flash programs are set up to automatically loop animations, so that they repeat in a continuous cycle. If you do not want your Flash animations to play in a continuous loop, you can disable the looping function so that the Flash animation plays only once and then stops. You can stop the looping function on the movie itself or just stop the looping in the file that you want to upload onto a web page. The methods of stopping the looping function in Macromedia Flash is similar to that used in most other Flash programs. Open the Flash software and open your Flash animation. The open function in most Flash programs is found under the “File” menu. Add an additional layer to the Flash timeline if there is not already an extra layer. Go to the “Insert” menu and choose “Timeline” and “Layer.” Click on the last frame in the Flash timeline to select the individual frame. Go to the “Window” menu and click “Actions” to display the “Actions – Frame” window. Put the cursor in the “Script” pane a
