Attack Animation Won't Play correctly

[EndyArts]

Hey!

I've got this fun little game I'm working on for a few friends. Its a 2D fighting game, similar to a very simplified Mortal Kombat. I only have one problem, the attack animation won't play correctly.

I've tired getting it to work a couple of ways(using counters, just stopping the idle animation, etc). Though as I just stated there's an idle animation I have set to loop. I also have the attack set to play when the space bar is pressed.
The animation starts for a split of a second then continues with the Idle. There also is an event that occurs when space is pressed that cancels the movement of the character till the attack animation has stopped. But give the animation wont even finish or even start, the movement is still disabled.

Heres a gyazo of the problem: https://gyazo.com/6ee63d1541058a27b46238d236bcd23a

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I'm willing to start over what code I have of the movement for a working game.

EDIT:after a bit of head scratching, i got it! I also can't seem to figure out how to get rid of this post, as it is no longer needed.

[aenever]

You'll need to post an example so that the community can test possible solutions; or at the very least a detailed explanation or screen shot of your code.

[coler123]

By looking at the reaction, it looks like is trying to attack and some other animation has priority (maybe stopped animation)

check if you have the stopped animation looping, and set it to just one if the event loops
Idk if you are using the platform movement but sometimes it happens to me that I forget that I put >if the object is not moving and on the floor to play stopped animation, in that case you have to prevent it from looping