Re: FLASH: movie clips loop formula ??

[mingo]

At 04:05 AM 12/15/98 -0500, you wrote:

>Hi Mingo,

>

>> (Once upon a time..) I have 5 frames movie with 2 layers.

>> In the first layer, I placed a 2 keyframes movie clip on the first frame

>> which have a digit '1' and '2' on each frame,

>> on the second layer, I have a empty keyframe at frame 5 to stop the MC, but

>> when I played the movie, it seems that the MC only loop 2 times ?

>> Does anybody know the formula to compute the no. of loops a MC will play in

>> terms of the timeline of the main movie ?? (Does the fps - frame rate, part

>> of the formula too ..i suspect..)

>A Movie Clip will continue to play until it no longer exists. It plays

>at the same rate as the maintime line but it's starting and stopping are

>independent of the main timeline.

>

>If the main timeline plays for four frames (without stopping) then the

>MC will play the same number of frames (4).


so if my MC has two frames, does it been it will repeat the two frames 

four times ?


>If there is a stop action in the first frame of the main timeline, the

>MC will play continuously.

>

>A Movie Clip will stop when its frame no longer exists.


sorry, I don't quite understand this last statement..what do you mean by 'frame

no longer exists" I thought, a Movie Clip will loop (repeat playing its own

frames)

Endlessly ? 


In my previous example, even when I put a stop action at the last frame of

the main movie, the MC seems to continue to play nonstop....until I issued a

Tell Target action to stop it. 


correct me if i'm wrong. Thanks for your time.


mingo


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