# What am I doing wrong?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong/26599>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 24, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong/26599 "2003-07-24T16:16:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Mikol27](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@Mikol27](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Mikol27)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong/26599/1 "2003-07-24T16:16:17Z")

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I have a page with a preloader that just isn’t behaving correctly. It does the loading part, then “scene2” -flashs on and off. It has many layers but it’s only 1 frame in length.

Please click play, play, then on the house and you’ll be in the hallway and that’s where the problem lies.

Any suggestions??

[![](http://static.hugedomains.com/images/logo_huge_domains.gif) ](http://static.hugedomains.com/images/logo_huge_domains.gif)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 4:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong/26599/2 "2003-07-24T16:18:52Z")

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put a stop() action on the first frame in the scene.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong/26599/3 "2003-07-24T16:33:37Z")

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can it really be that simple…

oh, I don’t believe it…THANKS!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong/26599/4 "2003-07-24T16:38:22Z")

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Scenes in Flash (although I don’t agree with using them) are used to divide a timeline into sections so you don’t have one super long timeline. If you don’t tell the timeline to stop() then it will keep looping around and around and around.

So placing a stop() action on the frame makes it go to that scene and stay there until you tell it otherwise 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 5:17pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong/26599/5 "2003-07-24T17:17:31Z")

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Interesting. Thanks for the info. Knowing that will definatley help in the future, and I didn’t fully understand that. Thanks!

:cowboy: