FLASH: Endless Loop w/two MC's (action script)

[Jason White]

I began to search the archive on this...but soon gave up after seeing there were 21 pages alone of June posts...


I have a button which starts one movie clip, then I want it to watch that clip til it gets to frame 22 and then start another clip.  I am trying a While Loop...but for some reason as soon as Flash starts to play the first target, it then comes back and tells me that 200,000 operations have been performed and that this is most likely an endless loop.  If it would set variable inside of the loop, then it should escape the loop briefly.  Anyone else tried this and have a better technique/hit the same snag?  Action Script is below.  Thanks,


Jason


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On Release

    Begin Tell Target ("/page1")

            Go to and Play ("submitdata")

      End Tell Target

      Set Variable: "a" = GetProperty ( "/page1", _currentframe )

      Loop While (a < 22)

            Set Variable: "a" = GetProperty ( "/page1", _currentframe )

      End Loop

      Set Variable: "a" = "done"

End Release

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