loadMovie frame length

[caustic]

Is there a way to read the frame length of a clip? I’m attempting to make an image gallery(somewhat) that switches between various animations rather than static images. What I’d like to do is wait for each to finish playing before moving on to the next one…

[lunatic]

From the flash help menu:

@FlashHelp

MovieClip._totalframes
Availability
Flash Player 4.

Usage
my_mc._totalframes:Number

Description
Read-only property; returns the total number of frames in the movie clip instance specified in the MovieClip parameter.

Example
In the following example, two movie clip buttons control the Timeline. The prev_mc button moves the playhead to the previous frame, and the next_mc button moves the playhead to the next frame. Add content to a series of frames on the Timeline, and add the following ActionScript to Frame 1 of the Timeline:

stop();
prev_mc.onRelease = function() {
  var parent_mc:MovieClip = this._parent;
  if (parent_mc._currentframe>1) {
    parent_mc.prevFrame();
  } else {
    parent_mc.gotoAndStop(parent_mc._totalframes);
  }
};
next_mc.onRelease = function() {
  var parent_mc:MovieClip = this._parent;
  if (parent_mc._currentframe<parent_mc._totalframes) {
    parent_mc.nextFrame();
  } else {
    parent_mc.gotoAndStop(1);
  }
};

[caustic]

Haven’t tested it, but I’m positive that’s exactly what I was looking for… Did quite a bit of searching, came up empty every time. Thanks much good sir

[lunatic]

I’m not a sir, but you are welcome anyway

Sometimes its hard to search. I usually end up going through the Actions panel and looking at the built in classes/functions. In this case I found it under:
Built-in Classes --> Movie --> MovieClip --> Properties. A bit of a dig but there is lots of good stuff in there.