Hello everyone,
I seem to be having a problem many nubies do.
I open a file.
At 2sec I put a red square.
I also put a trigger and select "stop" from the side menu in the action window (so this problem isn't with coding, I'm not entering anything myself but using the provided code)
I also put the word "circle" on the stage with a "sym.play(2.1)" to continue the action after i click on the word circle.
I put a grey circle at 2.5
after the circle would appear (at 2.5), I wanted the entire animation to stop.
So I put another trigger, after the circle appears, again from the menu provided.
Of course the result of this is that the animation pauses and waits form me to click the word "circle" then proceeds to show the grey circle;
but only for a milisecond before looping back to the beginning of the animation (presumably because it reached the end and started over as usual)
my question is: why doesn't the second trigger - sym.stop(); - stop the animation instead of letting it reach the end? I've tried putting specific numbers in the parenthesis, also tried making labels
and using them in the parenthesis. Also tried using - play(); - and - sym.play(); - with numbers and labels to create loops to endlessly stall the animation as a pseudo stop.
all to no avail. After the first trigger that pauses it at the red square, there is no stopping this train, it always reaches the end and loops (which i know the loop always happens there.)
Anyway, I can't continue learning this awesome program until I'm sure of how to stop. (also been frustrated with "Play from" functions relating to audio files, but that's a whole 'nother sandwich.
Thanks for your thoughts.
MD