# Looping
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping/19379
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [April 27, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping/19379 "2003-04-27T12:36:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@gangstaboo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/gangstaboo)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2003, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping/19379/1 "2003-04-27T12:36:28Z")
ok… i jus want my flash to play through once… how do i get it to stop looping on everyones screens? thanks
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2003, 1:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping/19379/2 "2003-04-27T13:54:24Z")
put a stop action on the last frame of the timeline or movie clip
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping/19379/3 "2003-04-27T14:37:16Z")
thats what i tried… but it didnt do anything to it…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2003, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping/19379/4 "2003-04-27T15:20:45Z")
it might depend on how its set up… if you have other movieclips playing, each one of those will loop themselves unless told to stop also.
But assuming you have just one long animation on the main timeline, the stop(); alone should prevent any further looping.
You might want to double check for the () if you are manually typing the commands… sometimes I forget 😉