AS3 Timeline Animation Refuses to Loop

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This is a weird one. I have a run animation for a player with four states labeled on the timeline: idle (one frame with a stop(); call in the frame), start (which has no scripting in any frames), run (which has a gotoAndPlay(“run”); call on the last frame, and stop (which has a gotoAndStop(“idle”); call at the last frame).

When I call idle, startRun, or stopRun, things work as they should - the problem is when I call run. “run” is roughly 20 frames long, and the animation gets about halfway through before returning to the first frame and freezing. I have no idea why this is happening, but would be delighted if someone could tell me what I’m doing wrong.

Here’s my code:


package example
{
    
    import flash.display.Sprite;
    import flash.display.MovieClip;
    import flash.events.Event;
    import flash.geom.Vector3D;
    
    public class Player extends MovieClip
    {
        private var _netForce:Vector3D = new Vector3D();
        private var _tempX:Number = 0;
        private var _tempY:Number = 0;
        
        
        public function get netForce():Vector3D
        {
            return _netForce;
        }
        
        public function set netForce(value:Vector3D):void
        {
            _netForce = value;
        }
        
        public function get isJumping():Boolean
        {
            if (_netForce.y < 0) return true;
            return false;
        }
        
        public function set isJumping(value:Boolean):void { }
        
        public function get isFalling():Boolean
        {
            if (_netForce.y > 0) return true;
            return false;
        }
        
        public function set isFalling(value:Boolean):void { }
        
        public function get tempX():Number
        {
            return _tempX;
        }
        
        public function set tempX(value:Number):void
        {
            _tempX = value;
        }
        
        public function get tempY():Number
        {
            return _tempY;
        }
        
        public function set tempY(value:Number):void
        {
            _tempY = value;
        }
        
        public function update():void { }
        
        override public function get hitArea():Sprite
        {
            return this.hitBox;
        }
        
        public function leftStart():void 
        {
            this.gotoAndPlay("run");
        }
        
        public function rightStart():void 
        {
            this.gotoAndPlay("run");
        }
        
        public function stopRun():void 
        {
            this.gotoAndPlay("stop");
        }
    }    
}