FLASH: Count frames

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Hi,

I have an  action script that

allows it to count the total number of frames in a movie which then tell 

targets a

certain action when the movie stops playing.I did not create this a friend 

came in to help so I'm still not sure how it works.


The code looks as fallows

If

(getProperty("episode1mask",_currentFrame)=getProperty("episode1mask",_totalFrames))

      Stop

      Begin Tell Target ("/shademask")

            Go to and Play ("fadeback")

      End Tell Target

Else

      Set Variable: "submovieFrame" = 

getProperty("episode1mask",_currentFrame)

      Go to and Play ("loopframe")

End If


I understand the basics of what is going on but I keep having trouble making 

this

script work consistantly. Sometimes it works at other times it dose not, 

usually it

dose not work.  If any one knows exactly whats going on in the script that 

would really help. What does the set variable part

actually do ?  Also is there a place that this script should go that will 

make it work

consistently. If I move those frames that the script is on from left to 

right it really

messes things up. Do you know any resources that I could look into to maybe 

figure

out another way to do frame counting that would make this work more 

consistently?

Is this possible to do with the call function?


thanks again I someone can help me some time for this,

cheers,

Nathalie



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