A question on Flash Action scripting?

Question

OK to start with, i am using action script 2.0 and I'm a total beginner at using it. What i am doing is using a button to play the animation with:

on(release) {

_root.gotoAndPlay(2);

}

OK so that works fine and i understand the number after gotoAndPlay means the frame to play, but is there a way to limit the frames it plays? I mean so i could tell it to play only frames 2-8 or whatever?

Answer 1

On Frame 8, put the following

_root.stop();

Depends on what you will do next and what you have on Frame 8 you can restart the frame anywhere from frame 3 to 8.

Hope this helps.