# Stop playback?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-playback/916
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [August 2, 2002, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-playback/916 "2002-08-02T12:55:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@jonathanhe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jonathanhe)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2002, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-playback/916/1 "2002-08-02T12:55:40Z")
I exported a .swf file from Macromedia Flash MX. The flash works well, however, it just keep looping itself.
Is there anyway to make it stop after all animation has been played? I tried at add an action “stop” in the last frame but that stops the whole movie at the 1st frame.
Why? Thanks a lot!
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2002, 1:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-playback/916/2 "2002-08-02T13:41:44Z")
Can you post your fla for us to look at?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2002, 1:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-playback/916/3 "2002-08-02T13:44:03Z")
Thanks! The fla can be download:
[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hyjin/flash/sta.fla](http://www.dartmouth.edu/~hyjin/flash/sta.fla)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-playback/916/4 "2002-08-02T13:49:01Z")
I bet I know what happened. When you inserted the stop on what you thought was the last frame, you didn’t first convert it to a keyframe. That, would put the stop on the first frame.
I just added it to the end, and it stopped fine.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 2, 2002, 1:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stop-playback/916/5 "2002-08-02T13:56:05Z")
Thank you, Kennyb.
Now it works!