# Stopping animation

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stopping-animation/185761>\
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**Created:** [April 16, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stopping-animation/185761 "2006-04-16T07:48:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![hooblatots](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/57b2e6/32.png) [@hooblatots](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hooblatots)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 7:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stopping-animation/185761/1 "2006-04-16T07:48:37Z")

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In the “Creating a Simple Flash 8 Animation” how would you make the animation fade in, and then stop when the letters form the word, instead of fading back out and looping?

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**Author:** ![hybrid101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7993a0/32.png) [@hybrid101](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hybrid101)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2006, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/stopping-animation/185761/2 "2006-04-16T14:18:31Z")

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on the last frame, add an action  
stop();