# Wondering about Movie Clips, and stop()

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**Created:** [May 3, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wondering-about-movie-clips-and-stop/2255 "2002-05-03T05:08:41Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 5:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wondering-about-movie-clips-and-stop/2255/1 "2002-05-03T05:08:41Z")

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Movie clips will loop no matter what, unless there’s a stop() action in the script. So…

When I’ve created a 1 frame movie clip, I always place a stop action in that frame, because I’ve just assumed that flash doesn’t care that it only has one frame, and keeps looping it. I know it does no harm, but I figure reducing loops is never a bad thing.

But I’ve noticed in Open Source files, other movie clips that only have one frame, the author didn’t add a stop command.

Does Flash not loop movie clips with 1 frame (if it has 2 or more it will), or do other people just not consider it?

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**Post date:** [May 3, 2002, 8:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wondering-about-movie-clips-and-stop/2255/2 "2002-05-03T08:27:56Z")

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nope you’re correct… It will loop them, and if you have the option, you’re probebly better off placing a stop(); action there if you don’t need the clip to loop. It will reduce processor requirements upon the viewers system.

I think that most programers are lazy if I’m any indication and just end up leaving the stop out of their production.

Good thing to mention… not many think of that.

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**Post date:** [May 5, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wondering-about-movie-clips-and-stop/2255/3 "2002-05-05T21:41:30Z")

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when you attach your swf file to your html page, can’t you just put “loop=false” in your embed tag?

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**Post date:** [May 5, 2002, 11:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wondering-about-movie-clips-and-stop/2255/4 "2002-05-05T23:22:07Z")

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That will stop the swf from looping, but not a 1 framed movie clip.

Say I want a button to move around the screen, I put that in a clip, and it’s only 1 frame long. So I add stop() to it, so it doesn’t loop. Other clips I may want to loop, like a series of animations or something, so I don’t include the stop() command.

Glad that my train of thought is not all whacked on me. 🙂