### Author:  [@invisible7](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/invisible7)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/1 "2004-07-21T06:03:15Z")
okay, okay. I just can’t get this autoslideshow to stop. I would really appreciate any help you may have.
And for the curious and critical, pIndex is set to -1 rather than 0 because the load starts with the 2nd jpg if I don’t. Also, I removed “loadMovie(pathToPics+pArray[0], \_root.mask\_mc);” because I couldn’t make it fade up on load. If you care.
* * *
stop();
pathToPics = “images/intro/”;
pArray = [“pic1.jpg”,“pic2.jpg”,“pic3.jpg”,“pic4.jpg”,“pic5.jpg”,“pic6.jpg”,“pic7.jpg”,“pic8.jpg”];
pIndex = -1;
fadeSpeed = 2;
delay = 2000;
//loadMovie(pathToPics+pArray[0], \_root.mask\_mc);
changePhoto = function() {
// make sure pIndex falls within pArray.length
pIndex = ((pIndex + 1) \< pArray.length) ? (pIndex + 1) : 0;
onEnterFrame = fadeOut;
clearInterval(myInterval);
};
function fadeOut() {
if (mask\_mc.\_alpha\>fadeSpeed) {
mask\_mc.\_alpha -= fadeSpeed;
} else {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
loadPhoto();
}
};
function loadPhoto() {
var p = mask\_mc;
p.\_alpha = 0;
p.loadMovie(pathToPics+pArray[pIndex]);
onEnterFrame = loadMeter;
};
function loadMeter() {
var i, l, t;
l = mask\_mc.getBytesLoaded();
t = mask\_mc.getBytesTotal();
if (t\>0 && t == l) {
onEnterFrame = fadeIn;
}
else {
trace(l/t);
}
};
function fadeIn() {
if (mask\_mc.\_alpha\<100-fadeSpeed) {
mask\_mc.\_alpha += fadeSpeed;
} else {
mask\_mc.\_alpha = 100;
myInterval = setInterval(changePhoto, delay);
onEnterFrame = null;
}
};
myInterval = setInterval(changePhoto, delay);
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/2 "2004-07-21T07:04:38Z")
If the above works (you’re setting the interval two times…):
```auto
//this code on a button:
on(release){
clearInterval(myInterval);
}
```
scotty(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 7:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/3 "2004-07-21T07:18:51Z")
thanks for the response.
It does work actually, but I should look at that duplicate set interval. Anywho, how do I accomplish this without a button, i.e. stopping after the number of pic’s in the array??
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 7:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/4 "2004-07-21T07:22:53Z")
curiously I just tried removing one and then the other --myInterval = setInterval(changePhoto, delay); – and it broke the slide show each time.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 9:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/5 "2004-07-21T09:01:41Z")
You’re right, I had a second look at the code and it should be there twice;)
(btw why you changed all the prototypes in normal functions?)
For stopping change the fadeIn function something like this?
```auto
function fadeIn() {
if (mask_mc._alpha<100-fadeSpeed) {
mask_mc._alpha += fadeSpeed;
} else {
mask_mc._alpha = 100;
if(pIndex
### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/6 "2004-07-21T14:45:30Z")
hmm, that didn’t work. Tried that in a number of locations + variations. Will an actual value like “8” work, or does this code just see +1?
"(btw why you changed all the prototypes in normal functions?)"
If you mean removing the \_root, I did that because this is to be loaded into another movie. Didn’t seem to effect anything. Is that “bad” or just strange.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/7 "2004-07-21T16:23:38Z")
> [@invisible7](#):
>
> hmm, that didn’t work. Tried that in a number of locations + variations. Will an actual value like “8” work, or does this code just see +1?
>
> “(btw why you changed all the prototypes in normal functions?)”
> If you mean removing the \_root, I did that because this is to be loaded into another movie. Didn’t seem to effect anything. Is that “bad” or just strange.
maybe this will work
changePhoto = function () {
// make sure pIndex falls within pArray.length
pIndex += 1;
onEnterFrame = fadeOut;
clearInterval(myInterval);
};
function fadeOut() {
if (mask\_mc.\_alpha\>fadeSpeed) {
mask\_mc.\_alpha -= fadeSpeed;
} else if (Pindex\>Parray.length) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
} else {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
loadPhoto();
}
}
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/8 "2004-07-21T16:25:44Z")
whoa…u ppl are like pros at this stuff…the only AS i know is- gotoandplay.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/9 "2004-07-21T17:15:01Z")
hey stringy, that did work, but oddly. I get an error “Error opening URL “file:///BACKUP/images/intro/””
I don’t think this is doing anything.
– } else if (Pindex\>Parray.length) {
delete this.onEnterFrame; –
I think that the slideshow stops because something isn’t found. Kind of like extending the array to include a 9th image, but not placing one in the folder. But, perhaps that is a solution.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/10 "2004-07-21T17:17:36Z")
> [@invisible7](#):
>
> hey stringy, that did work, but oddly. I get an error “Error opening URL “file:///BACKUP/images/intro/””
>
> I don’t think this is doing anything.
>
> – } else if (Pindex\>Parray.length) {
> delete this.onEnterFrame; –
>
> I think that the slideshow stops because something isn’t found. Kind of like extending the array to include a 9th image, but not placing one in the folder. But, perhaps that is a solution.
maybe it should be
} else if (Pindex\>=Parray.length) {
delete this.onEnterFrame;
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/11 "2004-07-21T18:27:40Z")
invisible7, can you post your fla?
scotty(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 6:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/12 "2004-07-21T18:37:16Z")
here it is. Also tried \>= and a number of other permutations.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 7:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/13 "2004-07-21T19:12:36Z")
Probably an accident that the fps was 1??
Here’s the fla, I’ve put my code in and it worked…
scotty(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/14 "2004-07-21T19:25:07Z")
hmmm, It did the same as what I had before. Remove the pic9.jpg from the array and try it. This was why it stopped for me, an error in it’s quary for a non-existant jpg. When I remove pic9.jpg it just keeps looping. But, as i said, this may work because the end user wouldn’t know.
Yah, I changed fps to 1 because I couldn’t get the file size down, forgot to save&compress.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/15 "2004-07-21T19:31:46Z")
Let me make this clear, you want to stop this at the end, so no looping?
this line makes it loop
```auto
pIndex = ((pIndex + 1) < pArray.length) ? (pIndex + 1) : 0;
```
scotty(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2004, 8:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/16 "2004-07-21T20:30:17Z")
yes that is what I want to do. What do you suggest should change.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2004, 5:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/17 "2004-07-22T05:41:43Z")
You want the last picture to stay or end up with an “empty” screen?
scotty(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2004, 6:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/18 "2004-07-22T06:05:23Z")
empty
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2004, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/19 "2004-07-22T07:01:58Z")
oh
LOL
Here you go, comments are in the AS;)
scotty(-:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 22, 2004, 1:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/just-stop-for-the-love-of-god/116757/20 "2004-07-22T13:59:13Z")
your a Prince and a Scholar. That worked perfectly. By the by I spent a lot of time looking for existing comments on a function similar to this on various flash sites before I posted a question and this same issue came up a number of times. Your the ONLY one who could come up with a solution.
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