# WHAT IS THIS: ERROR: 256 levels of recursion were exceeded in one action list **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [August 10, 2002, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-this-error-256-levels-of-recursion-were-exceeded-in-one-action-list/4465 "2002-08-10T15:35:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mvu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@mvu](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mvu)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-this-error-256-levels-of-recursion-were-exceeded-in-one-action-list/4465/1 "2002-08-10T15:35:02Z")
I was playing my movie navigating through the site but when I clicked all the buttons and pressed once again this appears: 256 levels of recursion were exceeded in one action list. This is probably an infinite loop. Further execution of actions has been disabled in this movie. How can I solve this? What does it means? ☹ :\*( ---
**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:** [August 12, 2002, 5:29am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-this-error-256-levels-of-recursion-were-exceeded-in-one-action-list/4465/2 "2002-08-12T05:29:13Z")
Sorry my friend but I’m at a loss. I have no clue what that means. I would suggest writing a very well formated email to Macromedia, asking them to send you a list of error codes. I’ll bet they would. At the very least they should be able to tell you what that specific one means. ---
**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:** [August 12, 2002, 5:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-this-error-256-levels-of-recursion-were-exceeded-in-one-action-list/4465/3 "2002-08-12T05:45:22Z")
Maybe you forgot to close a loop. Does your button use an if statement or any other loop statement? ---
**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:** [August 12, 2002, 1:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-is-this-error-256-levels-of-recursion-were-exceeded-in-one-action-list/4465/4 "2002-08-12T13:33:15Z")
There must be an uncontroled for or while loop in the script. Be careful not to mess with the incremeting variable in your script. pom :asian: